This paper examines how the housing problem of the Roma people, living already under severe socio-spatial circumstances, has been exacerbated by counterurbanisation over recent decades in the resort town of Urla, İzmir. Based on empirical socio-spatial research adopting methodological pluralism integrating qualitative and quantitative research techniques, the study uses in-depth interviews and secondary data (e.g., real-estate web data, official statistics, and local media) as well as spatial analysis of satellite images. We limited our study to the proximity of the town center of Urla, considering the Roma community's ‘right to the city’, ensuring their right not to be exiled to the spaces of discrimination, and not to be exempted from their right to appear and co-exist in the town center. As Urla became a prominent and attractive destination of counterurbanisation in Turkey, its growth was intensified by high-end housing production. Coming to 2000s, its urban-rural texture remained, at least physically, ‘rural’, but it had undergone significant transformation. And while this recent higher-end development accompanied by counterurbanisation is sanctioned by local authorities, the public and property owners, it leaves no room for the Roma people to find decent housing. An inquiry on the housing problem of the Roma people in Urla in relation to counterurbanisation and accompanying housing production contributes to understanding the dialectics between deregulated housing market, commodification and uneven distribution of treasury lands, neoliberal regulations, and fragmented development plans implemented in highly “path-dependent” ways.

本文探讨了罗姆人的住房问题，他们已经生活在严峻的社会空间环境下，近几十年来伊兹密尔度假小镇乌拉的反城市化如何加剧了他们的住房问题。本研究以实证社会空间研究为基础，采用定性和定量研究技术相结合的多元方法论，利用深度访谈和二手数据（如房地产网络数据、官方统计数据和当地媒体）以及卫星空间分析图片。我们将研究范围限制在乌尔拉市中心附近，考虑到罗姆人社区的“城市权”，确保他们不被流放到歧视空间的权利，也不被免除出庭和参与的权利。 - 位于市中心。随着乌拉成为土耳其反城市化的一个突出且有吸引力的目的地，高端住房的生产加速了其增长。到了2000年代，城乡结构至少在物理上仍然是“乡村”，但已经发生了重大转变。尽管最近伴随着逆城市化的高端开发项目得到了地方当局、公众和业主的认可，但它没有为罗姆人找到体面的住房留下空间。对乌拉罗姆人与反城市化和随之而来的住房生产有关的住房问题的调查有助于理解放松管制的住房市场、商品化和国库土地分配不均、新自由主义法规以及以高度“路径”实施的分散的发展计划之间的辩证关系。依赖”的方式。