Economics of residential crowding in developing countries

Lim, Gill-Chin; Follain, James R.; Renaud, Bertrand

doi:10.1016/0094-1190(84)90040-8

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“…Such inelastic income demand implies that the demand for housing attributes increases with an increase in income, but that such increases are less than proportional . The values of the income elasticity estimates are consistent with those obtained by Follain et al (1980) and Lim et al (1984) for Korea, Jimenez and Keare (1984) for El Salvador, Ingram (1981) and Strassman (1980) for Colombia, Ndulo (1986) for Zambia and Shefer (1990) for Indonesia, in that they are all less than unity. A further inspection of the absolute values of the income coefficient shows that the income elasticities of the demand for AvRMS and Rooms, which are space-related attributes, are greater than those for DISTSCH and DISTOHOSP, which are locational attributes.…”

Section: Income Elasticitiessupporting

confidence: 81%

“…1982 ;Jimenez, 1984, 1985a ; This state of affairs could be attributed Lim et al, 1984 ;Malpezzi and Mayo, to : the difficulty associated with obtaining 1987) . Apart from Megbolugbe's (1983a, property values in a developing country ;, 1989) study of Jos, Nigeria, there the apparent belief that housing markets exists a dearth of studies on the demand are inhibited by socio-cultural and politifor housing attributes in sub-Saharan cal institutions, thereby raising doubts as Africa .…”

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confidence: 95%

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Hedonic Prices and the Demand for Housing Attributes in a Third World City: The Case of Ibadan, Nigeria

Arimah

1992

Urban Studies

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This paper estimates the demand functions for a set of housing attributes for the city of Ibadan, Nigeria, using Rosen's two-step estimation procedure . The empirical results reveal that the most important determinants of the demand for housing attributes are: income, price of the attribute in question, household size and the occupational status of the head of household . The paper further indicates that the demand for housing attributes is inelastic as all estimated elasticities are below unity .

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Section: Income Elasticitiessupporting

confidence: 81%

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Hedonic Prices and the Demand for Housing Attributes in a Third World City: The Case of Ibadan, Nigeria

Arimah

1992

Urban Studies

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“…This was the finding, too of Follain et al (1982), Lim et al (1984) and UN-Habitat (2003). Sometimes the rooms and spaces occupied were considerably smaller than the minimum floor areas stipulated in the City of Johannesburg bylaws (see Section 1.2.2), and would be considered as overcrowding and thus illegal.…”

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confidence: 78%

“…100 Schlyter (2003) notes a study of rooms and spaces in Zimbabwe by Withers (1992) where only a third complained about space, and half even claimed to be satisfied with their accommodation. Lim et al (1984) note that 'the current policy approach to elimination…”

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Accommodation and Tenuous Livelihoods in Johannesburg’s Inner City: the ‘Rooms’ and ‘Spaces’ Typologies

Mayson

Charlton

2015

Urban Forum

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! 'Rooms' and 'spaces' are two closely linked forms of accommodation where the unit of occupation and exchange is a portion of a larger building or property, within which services and facilities are shared. 'Rooms' and 'spaces' in the inner city represented two of very few typologies research participants were aware of that allowed them access to the livelihood opportunities Johannesburg had to offer. Through participant observation and qualitative interviews this study explores two buildings featuring informal rooms and spaces and one building featuring formal rooms and spaces in Johannesburg's inner city. While formal rooms represented the most stable support to those specific occupants, there were several 'barriers to entry' including the prerequisite of a stable income. There was much to be learnt from the flexibility and diversity of rooms and spaces on the informal market, which enabled occupants to cope with insecure livelihood opportunities. The research demonstrated the incredible resilience of occupants in the face of an extreme shortage of affordable accommodation in Johannesburg's inner city (Tissington, 2013). However, the findings suggested an adverse relationship between accommodation and livelihoods demonstrated by the three 'forms' of rooms and spaces, where the only form available to people with the least secure livelihoods is that which, in turn, subjects them to the greatest insecurity.

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“…Regrettably, the authors recognize that low quality data makes it impossible to perform additional analysis due to the lack of significance in the estimated coefficients as well as the restrictions imposed by the Linear Expenditure Demand System that was used. Lim, Follain, and Renaud (1984) and Follain and Jimenez (1985) proposed similar theoretical frameworks but with a special emphasis on willingness to pay (WTP) estimates. These articles found that a household WTP for space is less than the cost of providing it, which has evident policy implications.…”

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Towards Housing Policies That Consider Household’s Preferences: Estimating the Demand for Housing Attributes in Chile

Lopez

Paredes

2018

International Journal of Strategic Property Management

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Abstract. Understanding household preferences for housing attributes is imperative for developing countries after years of housing policies that failed mostly due to the mismatch between housing solutions and needs. This paper provides income and price elasticity estimates of the demand for housing attributes as an indicator to measure how households perceive housing attributes (necessities or luxuries). These metrics are important because they allow evaluating previously national-level housing policies as well as suggesting new paths of action that are in accordance to households' preferences. The study focuses on Chile because its influential role in designing housing policies in other developing countries (Gilbert, 2002). Using five cross-section household surveys from 2000-2011, our results suggest that Size and Location are perceived as basic necessities. Contrarily, Quality and Housing Features are considered luxury goods. Size and Location are more price-inelastic than other attributes. These results are consistent across regions, and suggest that households prefer larger and better-located houses.

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Economics of residential crowding in developing countries

Cited by 19 publications

References 4 publications

Hedonic Prices and the Demand for Housing Attributes in a Third World City: The Case of Ibadan, Nigeria

Hedonic Prices and the Demand for Housing Attributes in a Third World City: The Case of Ibadan, Nigeria

Accommodation and Tenuous Livelihoods in Johannesburg’s Inner City: the ‘Rooms’ and ‘Spaces’ Typologies

Towards Housing Policies That Consider Household’s Preferences: Estimating the Demand for Housing Attributes in Chile

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