Enabling Slum Redevelopment in Mumbai: Policy Paradox in Practice

Mukhija, Vinit

doi:10.1080/02673030120090548

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“…Policies to deal with slums in poor countries have evolved considerably e from demolitions and evictions to resettlement to in-situ upgrading and redevelopment (Mukhija, 2001;Pugh, 1997) e to representing today's neoliberal emphases on public-private-NGO collaboration, community participation, tenure security, and microfinance (Imparato & Ruster, 2003;UN-Habitat, 2003). Likewise, decentralization has transferred policymaking and planning responsibilities to local governments for improving governance and development outcomes (Bardhan & Mookherjee, 2006;Beard, Miraftab & Silver, 2008) by letting communities, NGOs, and market actors contribute to development efforts such as slum upgrading (Imparato & Ruster, 2003;Plummer, 2000).…”

Section: Slum Upgrading Decentralization and The Indonesian Contextmentioning

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Slum upgrading with community-managed microfinance: Towards progressive planning in Indonesia

Das

2015

Habitat International

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Section: Slum Upgrading Decentralization and The Indonesian Contextmentioning

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Slum upgrading with community-managed microfinance: Towards progressive planning in Indonesia

Das

2015

Habitat International

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“…The problem is not the economic change itself but the way in which the values embedded within dominant neo-liberal ideologies which propagate it are interpreted. These values, including weakening of the state intervention and prioritising individual responsibility, strengthening of the private sector, marketisation and capital investment, form the basis of the modernisation agendas and economic and physical development policies of Southern governments (see for example, Mukhija, 2001;Payne, 2001;Sibley, 1995).…”

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‘Values’ as a tool for conceptualising homelessness in the global south

Speak

2013

Habitat International

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a b s t r a c tMuch of our conceptual understanding of homelessness is derived from studies underpinned by ideas and definitions developed in, and for, the industrialised world. It appears inadequate to help us address the growing phenomenon of homelessness in the Global South. Moreover, with a few exceptions literature on homelessness in the Global South tends to present good empirical understanding but to shy away from reconceptualising. We need, therefore, to build a new conceptual framework through which to understand homelessness in the Global South.Drawing on empirical research, this paper explores homelessness in the Global South through the window of 'values'. It does so in an attempt to understand why some people fall foul of the major social, political and economic changes which are perceived to be the driving force behind homelessness while others do not. It also seeks to make some sense of why homelessness and homeless people are perceived differently in different locations.

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“…The review did not prompt any slowdown in the implementation of the enabling strategy due to its contextual embeddedness within the popular neoliberalist tradition and associated economic arguments (that market was inherently more efficient and effective than the government). A great deal of persuasive writing has however emerged that makes a case for the return of stronger state intervention in housing (Angel, 2000;Mukhija, 2001, 2003, Cao and Keivani, 2015Yap, 2015). Mukhija (2001), citing examples of slum redevelopment in Mumbai highlighted the paradoxical nature of market mechanism in the Indian context.…”

Section: Enabling Housing Paradigm: Coming Of An Age?mentioning

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“…A great deal of persuasive writing has however emerged that makes a case for the return of stronger state intervention in housing (Angel, 2000;Mukhija, 2001, 2003, Cao and Keivani, 2015Yap, 2015). Mukhija (2001), citing examples of slum redevelopment in Mumbai highlighted the paradoxical nature of market mechanism in the Indian context. In and early but an apt reminder of the duality of housing delivery in India, he argues that the Indian government may need to embrace policy contradictions to ensure citizens' rights to housing and to curb apparent developer disinterest to serve the poor within the enabled market environment.…”

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Between enabling and provider approach: Key shifts in the national housing policy in India and Brazil

Sengupta

Murtagh

D’Ottaviano

et al. 2017

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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With the world becoming increasingly urban, housing poverty in the global south has made the metaphor ‘planet of slums’ a global reality. This paper revisits the dichotomy of enabler vs. provider debate in housing policy that preoccupied housing scholars in the last few decades. Drawing on the government intervention in Brazil and India, it is argued that the transformative and adaptive capacity of enabling strategy has now come of an age. Among other things, the paper makes a close reading of the historical and geographical (re)constitution of the process of housing delivery in these countries and argues that they have adopted enabling strategies along with closely intertwined strategies of crisis management and show a clear predisposition towards earlier provider approach of state administered, large-scale housing programmes to support the low-income households. Thus, as one policy approach follows another, the discursive space for the government policy doctrine acquires a layered structure, which contains elements of both provider and enabling approaches. Whilst these developments, still evolutionary, challenges remain in the form of conceptual contradictions that continue to obscure our approach towards low-income housing policies in the global South. Arguably on this basis, considerably more, attention should be given to providing housing to the poor in the global South.

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Enabling Slum Redevelopment in Mumbai: Policy Paradox in Practice

Cited by 70 publications

References 16 publications

Slum upgrading with community-managed microfinance: Towards progressive planning in Indonesia

Slum upgrading with community-managed microfinance: Towards progressive planning in Indonesia

‘Values’ as a tool for conceptualising homelessness in the global south

Between enabling and provider approach: Key shifts in the national housing policy in India and Brazil

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