Residential Mobility, Occupational Changes and Self‐help Housing in Latin American Cities

Hoenderdos, Wouter; Lindert, Paul van; Verkoren, Otto

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9663.1983.tb00058.x

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“…Many are accommodated elsewhere and most families pay rent from the very start . In an earlier comparative analysis of tenure relations among the urban poor of various northern Mexican cities and La Paz, it was held that starting positions of migrants in all the cities studied were really much the same: a mean 50-60 per cent of all arrivals rented a home, against some 20-30 per cent who secured free accommodation under sharing arrangements or as caretakers (Hoenderdos et al, 1983) . Even in Ciudad Jufirez, where abundant tracts of land are parcelled out in lots and issued at a relatively low price by the local government, this massive dominance of renters and sharers was very similar to the situation in La Paz …”

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Moving Up or Staying Down? Migrant-Native Differential Mobility in La Paz

Lindert

1991

Urban Studies

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The higher you live, the poorer you are" goes the common phrase in La Paz . On aggregate, this view of residential segregation in this high Andean city is accurate . However, the results from empirical research among the residents of different types of low-income housing zones point to some considerable variations in the housing careers of the city-born poor and the migrant poor in La Paz . Centrifugal mobility is the general pattern for the low-income groups in La Paz-but the city-born residents usually move over shorter distances than migrants and substantial numbers still locate in the central tenement district . The spatial aspects of housing careers are highly influenced by the geographical distribution of a respondent's contacts in the city . Many migrants nowadays end up in the far periphery of the city's high plateau, whereas the indigenous poor still manage to secure accommodation in the more sheltered parts of the central basin . The other side of the picture is that the city-born poor remain in non-owned accommodation for rather prolonged periods, whereas the migrant poor attain self-help ownership much more quickly .

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Section: Tenure Relationsmentioning

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Moving Up or Staying Down? Migrant-Native Differential Mobility in La Paz

Lindert

1991

Urban Studies

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“…In the third world housing literature particular importance has been accorded to the role of migration, a natural preoccupation given the vast movement of people from rural areas to the cities. Numerous studies have revealed that most newcomers rent or stay with friends or kin as a means of establishing themselves in the city (Hoenderdos et al, 1983;Morse, 1971a;1971b;Gilbert and Ward, 1982). Later, they are likely to move into selfhelp ownership.…”

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Renting a home in a third world city: choice or constraint?

Gilbert

Varley

1990

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…One is the research project 'Public Intervention, Housing and Land Use in Latin American Cities' of London's University College sponsored by the British Overseas Development Administration, which involved comparative urban research in Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela (Gilbert 1981, Gilbert & Ward 1982. The Department of Geography of the University of Utrecht started a research program purporting to unravel the relationships of rural-urban migration, residential mobility, occupational change, and self-help housing in cities in Mexico and Bolivia (Hoenderdos, Van Lindert & Verkoren 1983, Van Lindert & Verkoren 1986). Furthermore, in Germany, geographers at various universities joined in a research project on urbanization processes in several Latin American metropolitan areas, financially supported by the Volkswagenwerk Foundation (Bahr 4Kliickmann 1984, 1985 Bahr 1986).…”

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