Why there? Developers' rationale for building social housing in the urban periphery in Latin America

Duren, Nora Ruth Libertun de

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2017.10.006

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“…To promote housing accessibility for a large number of households through the rent-to-own housing ownership approach, a long-term affordability period is suggested [89]. In developed countries, and countries with emerging economies, the affordability is generally set at 30 years to provide different low-income groups with a long enough period to cover the cost of housing [90]. In fact, the long affordability duration increases the likelihood that households will be able to pay for their housing units within the limit of their incomes.…”

Section: Progressive Housing Ownership Through Rent-to-ownmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As stated by housing development scholars, realizing a new housing development requires many investments from the government in terms of providing infrastructure and other public services such as roads, water, electricity, waste management systems, health and education facilities, and other services which become a public burden [105]. Some of these scholars estimate the cost for land and infrastructure at 60% of the total cost of any large-scale housing development project [65,90]. To decrease this cost, it would be better to upgrade the existing houses when some of these basic facilities such as water, electricity, public transportation services exist.…”

Section: Improving the Existing Houses Through Informal Settlements Umentioning

confidence: 99%

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Access to Affordable Houses for the Low-Income Urban Dwellers in Kigali: Analysis Based on Sale Prices

Uwayezu

Vries

2020

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The government of Rwanda recently passed housing development regulations and funding schemes which aim at promoting access to affordable houses for the low- and middle-income Kigali city inhabitants. The existing studies on housing affordability in this city did not yet discuss whether this government-supported programme is likely to promote access to housing for these target beneficiaries. This study applies the price-to-income ratio (PIR) approach and the 30-percent of household income standard through the bank loan to assess whether housing units developed in the framework of affordable housing schemes are, for the target recipients, affordable at all. It relies mainly on housing prices schemes held by real estate developers, data on households’ incomes collected through the household survey and a review of the existing studies and socio-economic censuses reports. Findings reveal that the developed housing units are seriously and severely unaffordable for most of the target beneficiaries, especially the lowest-income urban dwellers, due to the high costs of housing development, combined with the high profits expected by real estate developers. The study suggests policy and practical options for promoting inclusive urban (re)development and housing affordability for various categories of Kigali city inhabitants. These options include upgrading the existing informal settlements, combined with their conversion into shared apartments through the collaboration between property owners and real estate developers, the development of affordable rental housing for the low-income tenants, tax exemption on construction materials, progressive housing ownership through a rent-to-own approach, and incremental self-help housing development using the low-cost local materials.

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Section: Progressive Housing Ownership Through Rent-to-ownmentioning

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Section: Improving the Existing Houses Through Informal Settlements Umentioning

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Access to Affordable Houses for the Low-Income Urban Dwellers in Kigali: Analysis Based on Sale Prices

Uwayezu

Vries

2020

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“…Even though residential areas are frequently without water service for weeks and months (in one neighbourhood, behind IBM's campus, residents have been without water services for 10 years), thousands of new homes are under construction. Housing developers oversee the provision of water and waste treatment services until all units are sold, at which point the responsibility falls on the overstretched city services (Libertun de Duren, 2018: 416).…”

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“…From 2000 through 2012, 20 million Mexicans, one sixth of the total population, relocated into variations of these homes (Marosi, 2017), a million of which were 325 ft 2 (just over 30m 2 ) and ‘often occupied by large families’ (Reyes Ruiz del Cueto, 2018: 115). Optimizing three variables — the number of units they could build on each site, the price of the land, and the bureaucratic ease of the approval process (Libertun de Duren, 2018: 416) — developers continually pushed further and further from city centres, ‘exacerbating social segregation by displacing the poor to ever more peripheral locations’ (Janoschka and Arreortua, 2017: 44). Explaining why peripheral municipalities welcomed these developments, Reyes Ruiz del Cueto (2018: 94) writes that construction permits ‘constituted the bulk of municipal revenues’.…”

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Social Reproduction, Ecological Dispossession and Dependency: Life Beside the Río Santiago in Mexico

Greene¹,

Morvant‐Roux²

2020

Development and Change

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This article uses an integrated social reproduction theory (SRT) framework to highlight the interrelation between all non‐wage forms of survival, such as debt, community and the environment. The analysis demonstrates how Mexico's unregulated industrialization and social housing policies have created new forms of poverty and market dependency. The article relies on a comprehensive literature review and extensive fieldwork carried out in El Salto, one of Mexico's industrial peripheries, and shows how vulnerable populations become trapped, in this case on the banks of the Río Santiago, one of Mexico's most contaminated rivers. Parallel developments of industrial and housing policies contextualize the conditions unfolding throughout Mexico where populations are relocated to areas without adequate water and where drinking water is supplied by bottled water companies. This contribution highlights why an expanded SRT framework is valuable for understanding the relationship between ecological dispossession and the forced reliance on markets and debt.

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Socioeconomic Segregation in Mexico City: Scale, Social Classes, and the Primate City

Monkkonen

Giottonini

Comandon

2021

The Urban Book Series

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Mexico City is known as one of the largest cities in the world and thought by many to be one of the most unequal. Not surprisingly, it has received more attention than other Mexican urban areas. However, the city’s internal social organization is often misunderstood. Mexico City stands out as a city where segregation is relatively low, and levels of inequality are actually lower than perceptions. Moreover, between 1990 and 2010, both segregation and inequality have declined. This chapter examines these changes. We report on changes in occupational structure and patterns of segregation by educational level. Educational level is different from income or occupation, but these three dimensions of socioeconomic conditions are closely linked. While the overall level of segregation between educational groups in the city has slightly decreased, residential patterns of educational groups have changed significantly. The number of neighborhoods with high concentrations of highly educated people increased significantly and expanded geographically. At the same time, the prevalence of neighborhoods with residents with low and middle educational attainment has diminished and neighborhoods that house people of all educational categories or high and middle categories are more numerous. This chapter illustrates the complexity of segregation patterns in such a large metropolitan area, as well as the challenges of determining why patterns have changed.

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Why there? Developers' rationale for building social housing in the urban periphery in Latin America

Cited by 56 publications

References 6 publications

Access to Affordable Houses for the Low-Income Urban Dwellers in Kigali: Analysis Based on Sale Prices

Access to Affordable Houses for the Low-Income Urban Dwellers in Kigali: Analysis Based on Sale Prices

Social Reproduction, Ecological Dispossession and Dependency: Life Beside the Río Santiago in Mexico

Socioeconomic Segregation in Mexico City: Scale, Social Classes, and the Primate City

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