Collective Property Rights and Social Citizenship: Recent Trends in Urban Latin America

Davis, Diane E.; Fernández, José Carlos

doi:10.1017/s1474746419000459

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“…Despite these challenges, trusts can enable families to remain in gentrifying neighbourhoods and can be creatively combined with other development programs. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, for example, a community land trust was established alongside environmental remediation projects in informal communities that were vulnerable to flooding ( Davis & Fernández, 2020 ). The flood prevention upgrades will make the communities safer and more desirable, while the Trust protects the communities from displacement and increases in land value (i.e., provides collective tenure security) while also providing residents with affordable housing, home mortgages, and property inheritance ( Davis & Fernández, 2020 ).…”

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Synthesizing the links between secure housing tenure and health for more equitable cities

Baumgartner¹,

Rodrıguez²,

Berkhout³

et al. 2023

Wellcome Open Res

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Millions of households in rich and poor countries alike are at risk of being unwilfully displaced from their homes or the land on which they live (i.e., lack secure tenure), and the urban poor are most vulnerable. Improving housing tenure security may be an intervention to improve housing and environmental conditions and reduce urban health inequalities. Building on stakeholder workshops and a narrative review of the literature, we developed a conceptual model that infers the mechanisms through which more secure housing tenure can improve housing, environmental quality, and health. Empirical studies show that more secure urban housing tenure can boost economic mobility, improve housing and environmental conditions including reduced exposure to pollution, create safer and more resourced communities, and improve physical and mental health. These links are shared across tenure renters and owners and different economic settings. Broader support is needed for context-appropriate policies and actions to improve tenure security as a catalyst for cultivating healthier homes and neighbourhoods and reducing urban health inequalities in cities.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Synthesizing the links between secure housing tenure and health for more equitable cities

Baumgartner¹,

Rodrıguez²,

Berkhout³

et al. 2023

Wellcome Open Res

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“…Through holistic interventions, the government has successfully improved slum conditions by implementing housing, infrastructure, and community development initiatives. Efforts to formalize land tenure and provide essential services have yielded positive outcomes [57,58]. Collaborative efforts involving government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and local communities have been instrumental in achieving these results, highlighting the importance of engaging multiple stakeholders in developing sustainable solutions [59].…”

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confidence: 99%

Slums Evolution and Sustainable Urban Growth: A Comparative Study of Makoko and Badia-East Areas in Lagos City

Gilbert,

Shi

2023

Sustainability

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This research addresses the evolution of slums in two specific areas of Lagos City, a consequence of rapid urbanization in developing economies. The study aims to analyze the key characteristics of slums’ evolution while analyzing mathematical spatial changes within the Badia-East and Makoko slum areas in two decades, focusing on promoting sustainable urban growth. The integration of Remote Sensing (RS) technology and Geographic Information System (GIS) tools has dramatically facilitated the monitoring of Land Use Land Cover (LULC) changes over two decades. This research used Landsat imagery acquired in 2000, 2010, and 2020 to meet our research aims. The research applied supervised classification and the Normalized Difference Built-up Index (NDBI) for image mapping and mathematical-based analysis. Research created a spatial framework using grid-cell maps, performed change detection, and generated detailed maps to support our analysis. A comparative analysis was also performed in the selected areas with a different history in slum management systems. The findings reveal that both Makoko and Badia-East exhibit slum-like characteristics. Makoko witnessed a significant increase in informal built-up expansion of 27.6% and 7.7% between 2000 and 2010 and between 2010 and 2020, respectively. These changes converted 34.65 hectares of non-built-up land in Makoko into built-up areas. Conversely, Badia-East reported an increase in built-up areas only between 2000 and 2010, which amounted to 8.5%. However, the government’s intervention caused a decrease of 12.7% in built-up areas of Badia-East between 2010 and 2020. The study underscores the urgent need for slum clearance and upgrading initiatives in Makoko, like those implemented in Badia-East between 2013 and 2017. The conclusion drawn from the study of Makoko’s informal built-up areas is that it is causing adverse effects on human life and the environment. The expansion has resulted in an increase in air and water pollution, which is having adverse effects. Therefore, the study recommends upgrading and clearing out Makoko and suggests taking lessons from the successful experience in Badia-East. The study also highlights the importance of prioritizing community needs and voices to ensure efficient resource utilization while safeguarding the well-being of future generations.

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“…These are particularistic rights strengthening the differentiated (social identity-based) nature of citizenship entitlements. In this themed section the article from Latin American context (Davis and Fernández, 2019) shows how Community Land Trusts enable citizenship entitlements in the context of urban inequality and exclusion. Now, we turn our attention to structural transformations that are being meted out on land holding.…”

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Property and Social Citizenship: Social Policy beyond the North

Pellissery

Lødemel²

2020

Social Policy & Society

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This article examines how the property rights in land have come to be a constitutive element of social citizenship. Reviewing the theoretical developments on the idea of social citizenship since Marshall’s seminal essay on Citizenship and Social Class (1950), this introductory article identifies four processes which bring property rights to the centre stage of social rights. First, recognition of entitlement beyond ownership opens up different social functions of property. Social citizenship as a tool is able to demand contextually appropriate rights from the bundle of rights that property is constituted of. Second, the idea of social citizenship is global today, and has transcended nation-state boundaries. How trade and communications impact property in land shapes the realisation of social rights. Three, active citizens contribute to the creation of public spaces in emerging urban residential areas. Citizens make social claims on such spaces through radical forms of insurgent citizenship. Four, planning as a tool, which organises property for the realisation of citizens’ social rights, is able to meet the competing objectives of human rights and speculative profiteering by real estate owners. These four aspects become essential to understand how social citizenship is unfolding, particularly in the Global South.

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Collective Property Rights and Social Citizenship: Recent Trends in Urban Latin America

Cited by 10 publications

References 26 publications

Synthesizing the links between secure housing tenure and health for more equitable cities

Synthesizing the links between secure housing tenure and health for more equitable cities

Slums Evolution and Sustainable Urban Growth: A Comparative Study of Makoko and Badia-East Areas in Lagos City

Property and Social Citizenship: Social Policy beyond the North

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