ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how the security forces intervened decisively in social housing redevelopment practice. It discusses the tactical use of 'everyday' residential architecture for the purposes of improving security and reducing terrorist threat in ways that contribute to the city's architectural heritage. The chapter illustrates the material visibilities of the decisions taken by the Standing Committee on the Security Implications of Housing under the auspices of reducing terrorist threat in a number of social housing developments. The architecture that was created through these processes demonstrates how the security-threat-community persists as a contemporary phenomenon that enables historic conflict-era forces to remain latently active within the present-day post-conflict city. The security-threat-community is designated as a complicated socio-material problem to be explained through socio-material solutions. The events at the Twinbrook and Suffolk estates on the south-eastern fringe of Belfast would give further succour to the governmental bent towards non-disclosure.
