Fear and Segregation: Anxiety Beyond Gated Communities. The Costa Rican Case

Chaves, Karla Barrantes

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-84083-9_5

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“…As can be seen, most previous work in Costa Rica has focused on the San José metropolitan region (Molina-Varela 2013; Sánchez-Hernández 2015) and on describing the consequences of residential segregation on fragmented urban space (Pujol-Mesalles, Sánchez-Hernández, and Pérez-Molina 2011; Van Lidth De Jeude, Schütte, and Quesada 2016) or violence (Barrantes-Chaves 2021) but there seem to be no attempts to identify the determinants of segregation (save for the work of de la Espriella, 2009, on Liberia, which was based on spatial analysis rather than quantification of impacts). While more reflection on the causes of residential segregation, in particular with regard to public policy, is present in the Latin American literature, 1 few have quantified the impacts of segregation.…”

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The Impact of the National Housing Program on Residential Segregation in Costa Rica

Pérez-Molina

2022

Urban Affairs Review

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Residential socio-economic segregation in Costa Rica had an overall decreasing trend between 1973 and 2011 because of a sustained reduction in the amount of lower income households. However, in 1986, the national housing program was reformed, including a ten-fold increase in housing supply (292 thousand subsidies allocated in 1987-2011, in a country with 1.36 million housing units). The pattern of these subsidies was hypothesized to increase residential segregation in Costa Rica. Segregation indices were estimated per municipality for lower and higher income groups. The impact of social housing subsidies on segregation levels was quantified using a fixed effects model with standard errors corrected for spatial dependence. Social housing supply was found to have historically reduced residential segregation; however, the 1986 reforms created a system that followed the patterns of real estate markets, in turn reducing much of the system’s mitigation effect on residential segregation.

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