The social housing burden: comparing households at the periphery and the centre of cities in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico

Duren, Nora Ruth Libertun de

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“…Building on the extant literature on financialization, we aim to reflect on and problematize the relationships between different state actors and market forces (Langley, 2008; Van der Zwan, 2014; Aalbers, 2017). While recognizing important similarities between the recent housing development processes of Brazil and Mexico, as previous studies have done (Libertun de Duren, 2018a; 2018b; Molina et al ., 2019; Nascimento Neto and Salinas Arreortua, 2020), we aim to highlight key differences in their housing finance models—and their shifts at different points in time. The financialization of public entities, development companies and households has been quite distinct in each context, leading to diverse implications at different levels.…”

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“…similarities between the recent housing development processes of Brazil and Mexico, as previous studies have done (Libertun de Duren, 2018a;2018b;Molina et al, 2019;Nascimento Neto and Salinas Arreortua, 2020), we aim to highlight key differences in their housing finance models--and their shifts at different points in time. The financialization of public entities, development companies and households has been quite distinct in each context, leading to diverse implications at different levels.…”

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THE DISTINCTIVE EVOLUTION OF HOUSING FINANCIALIZATION IN BRAZIL AND MEXICO

Reyes¹,

Basile²

2022

Int J Urban Regional Res

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After defaulting on their foreign-debt obligations in the 1980s, several Latin American countries had to restructure their economies to boost market-led growth. Some of the ensuing housing reforms promoted mortgage expansion and mass housing production. Mexico was among the first countries to follow this logic, and in a particularly aggressive manner. Credit liberalization allowed a handful of real estate firms to experience massive expansions in their operations in the 2000s as they were able to build lower-middle-income housing at an accelerated rate by accessing public, pension and private equity funds. Brazil eventually appropriated some aspects of the Mexican housing model, but not others. In the late 2000s, Brazil began providing deep subsidies to low-income households to connect the private supply of housing with a publicly subsidized demand. This article discusses, challenges and moves beyond prior analyses of these processes by contrasting the two countries' housing finance models and examining the more recent (2010s) evolution and normative shifts in their housing and urban development policy agendas. Despite the direct policy transfer between the two contexts, the South-South comparative analysis presented in the article highlights the fluctuating and unstable nature of financialization processes given the varied inclination of national governments to manage, promote or restrict them, or to contain or accentuate capitalist crises and their implications.

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THE DISTINCTIVE EVOLUTION OF HOUSING FINANCIALIZATION IN BRAZIL AND MEXICO

Reyes¹,

Basile²

2022

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Similarly, in some countries, two adults sharing a housing unit without being legally married -even if they consider themselves part of the same households-may be considered "cohabitation" (living with non-related people), leading to mis categorization.- (Liu, Esteve, and Treviño, 2017). Not surprisingly, cohabitation is the most prevalent form of quantitative housing deficit (Cheung, Tsz Kin Chan, and Monkkonen, 2020), Additionally, FHHs often prioritize shorter commuting times over housing quality when allocating their budget (Libertun, 2020;Acolin and Green, 2017).…”

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Household Led by Women: Understanding Access to Housing Credit in Latin America and the Caribbean

Libertun de Duren

2023

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The share of Latin American and Caribbean households led by women is rapidly increasing, at the same time as these households are overrepresented among those living in housing deficit. In this study, we looked at whether there is a gender gap in access to housing loans, one of the main tools available to housing. In addition, we explored which are the characteristics of FHHs and to which extent they can have an impact on their access to adequate housing. This study shows how FHHs face greater housing deficits. Our findings indicate that gender gaps in other areas, most importantly in labor markets, are conditioning income and therefore access to financial services. And yet, once results are controlled for observable variables, the gender gap in obtaining a mortgage in LAC shrinks but persists. At all income levels, women had a lower proportion of housing credit ownership than men did at the same income level. That is, a woman would need higher levels of income and education than a man does to achieve the same access to financial services. Likewise, gender gaps are noticeable even when comparing men and women with housing loans. For example, our results indicate that women in the second wealthiest quintile would have the same access to credit as men in the second poorest quintile. Our study also supports the notion that FHHs tend to prioritize housing location over housing, which may explain why FHHs are overcrowded even if not poor.

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Does public rental housing foster social ties? A study of the everyday social lives of rural migrants in Chongqing, China

Hu,

Huang

2024

Urban Geography

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The social housing burden: comparing households at the periphery and the centre of cities in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico

Cited by 3 publications

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THE DISTINCTIVE EVOLUTION OF HOUSING FINANCIALIZATION IN BRAZIL AND MEXICO

THE DISTINCTIVE EVOLUTION OF HOUSING FINANCIALIZATION IN BRAZIL AND MEXICO

Household Led by Women: Understanding Access to Housing Credit in Latin America and the Caribbean

Does public rental housing foster social ties? A study of the everyday social lives of rural migrants in Chongqing, China

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