Management of low-income condominiums in Bogotá and Quito: the balance between property law and self-organisation

Donoso, Rosa E.; Elsinga, Marja

doi:10.1080/14616718.2016.1248608

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“…Communitarian approaches should be adopted in both housing design and housing management to reinforce homeowners' collective efficacy beliefs. Given that formal institutions have been found to exert remarkable influence on collectivism in MOH governance [97], future studies are warranted to unravel how the institutional settings of MOH governance affect the relationships between different efficacy beliefs and homeowners' participation behaviors. Besides, it will be also interesting to probe the interacting dynamics of three efficacy beliefs in the context of MOH governance in further research.…”

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Tripartite Efficacy Beliefs and Homeowner Participation in Multi-Owned Housing Governance

Yau¹

2018

Sustainability

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Homeowners’ collective actions are essential for effective governance of multi-owned housing (MOH) and a city’s sustainable development. Yet, not all homeowners keenly participate in MOH governance. Unpacking why homeowners decide to participate is thus insightful. So far, little work has been done on how perceived efficacies of property management agents (PMAs) shape collective actions in MOH governance. Founding upon the social cognitive theory and collective interest model, a theoretical model is built to empirically examine how proxy efficacy belief influences participation behaviors of homeowners. Drawing on the findings of a survey of 2035 homeowners in Hong Kong and Macau, this study reveals that participation level correlates positively with self and group efficacy beliefs but negatively with perceived proxy efficacy. Poor performance or incapacity of the PMAs triggers a higher degree of homeowner participation. The research findings have significant policy implications for promoting a better MOH upkeep culture.

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Tripartite Efficacy Beliefs and Homeowner Participation in Multi-Owned Housing Governance

Yau¹

2018

Sustainability

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“…Smaller, fenced-off, and thus controllable entities simultaneously create the illusion of reduced risk and stimulate citizens' co-responsibility for their living environment [8,41,42]. Attempts to avoid risk result in a compartmentalization of the built environment with the exclusion of 'others' as the most prominent feature.…”

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All-Inclusiveness versus Exclusion: Urban Project Development in Latin America and Africa

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This paper scrutinizes current processes of urban fragmentation, segregation, and exclusion that result from the increasing flows of capital in gated communities, walled-off condominiums, and similar exclusivist investment hubs in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. Gated communitylike developments are growing and spreading into new areas. Although not all of the walled projects offer all-inclusiveness, they are unanimously based on the pre-selection of specific categories of residents. Moreover, all-inclusive urban developments are taking on new and more encompassing forms, such as 'gated cities'. Hence, socio-spatial inclusion and exclusion in the urban built environment are continuously transforming under the influence of investment capital (i.e., new urban investment flows and speculation), urbanistic concepts (e.g., different interpretations of safety and crime), and human mobilities. This paper builds on a comparison of empirical cases from Latin America and Africa to develop a qualitative framework of segregation indicators. In Latin America, gated communities have a long history, but exclusionary developments are changing in form, as well as in implications. In Africa, research on gated communities has particularly focused on South Africa (where they have a longer history), but exclusionary developments are spreading rapidly across the continent, and will influence future real estate development and land markets. Based on such complementary experiences, this paper grapples with the question of how these new all-inclusive developments influence the possibilities of achieving inclusive and sustainable urban transitions, as advocated in Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG11) and the New Urban Agenda.

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“…If these conditions are not guaranteed, low-income households are at risk of experiencing unsuccessful ownership processes that may perpetuate conditions of poverty (Elsinga & Hoekstra, 2005;Marcuse, 1972). In the case of multiowned buildings, also known as condominiums, the tension between individual and collective needs also affects maintenance, and entails additional challenges for collective decision-making to take care of common areas of the property (Donoso & Elsinga, 2016). Furthermore, the collective management is defined by complex connections between property and law (Blandy, Dixon, & Dupuis, 2006).…”

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“…On the other hand, literature that focus on their role in the improvement of low-income owner occupied housing is scarce. While some studies have contributed to the understanding of the factors underlying poor maintenance practices from the collective action theory (Donoso & Elsinga, 2016;P erez, 2009), more research is needed regarding solutions and strategies to support low-income homeowners in the management of their properties.…”

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The role of third sector organisations in the management of social condominiums in Chile: the case of Proyecto Propio*

d'Alençon

Gruis

Flier

2019

International Journal of Housing Policy

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In Chile, social condominiums are a significant part of housing for low-income households. After decades of occupancy, this housing stock shows signs of rapid deterioration and devaluation due to neglected maintenance. Given the weak governmental support in management practices, third sector organisations are positioning themselves as alternatives to providing technical solutions and contributing to the enhancement of opportunities and capacities among communities that live in deprived areas. However, little is known about the dynamics between these organisations and the communities they work with as well as their interactions with their institutional environment in the context of improving condominium management practices. Employing concepts of intermediation and institutionalisation, we analyse the practice of the organisation Proyecto Propio. We describe the dynamics of the intermediary role as implementer of housing policy and catalyst of social innovation, and the institutionalisation of these practices. The main characteristic of their intermediary role in condominium management practices is a holistic approach as implementer and catalyst for complex interventions, situating the users at the centre of the process. The main challenges are related to institutionalisation: the inclusion of more incentives to scale up and consolidate the third sector as a relevant actor in housing and condominium management.

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Management of low-income condominiums in Bogotá and Quito: the balance between property law and self-organisation

Cited by 29 publications

References 31 publications

Tripartite Efficacy Beliefs and Homeowner Participation in Multi-Owned Housing Governance

Tripartite Efficacy Beliefs and Homeowner Participation in Multi-Owned Housing Governance

All-Inclusiveness versus Exclusion: Urban Project Development in Latin America and Africa

The role of third sector organisations in the management of social condominiums in Chile: the case of Proyecto Propio*

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