The challenge of low-income housing quality in Latin American cities: lessons from two decades of housing policies in Bogotá

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Juan G. Yunda ◽  
Olga Ceballos-Ramos ◽  
Milena Rincón-Castellanos
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Housing Quality ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
American Cities ◽  
Low Income Housing

Community Participation in Low-income Housing Policies: Potential or Paradox

1990 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Nientied ◽  
Sadok Ben Mhenni ◽  
Joop de Wit
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Low Income Housing

Housing and the Urban Poor: The Case of Bogotá, Colombia

1977 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-124
Author(s):  
Timothy O'Dea Gauhan
Keyword(s):  
Housing Market ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Low Income Housing

In a setting as complex as the modern city we can expect that a number of diverse factors wil combine to influence the urban environment and the quality of life and well being of those who reside in it. In the major cities of the developing world, where change is typically rapid, economic and social relationships are diverse, and the patterns of development are often different and in some ways more complex than those of the cities of industrialized nations, and the forces which shape the character of urban life are particularly numerous and often confusing.The present paper examines a single component of the total environment of the Latin American city of Bogotá, Colombia: the low-income housing market. We begin by looking at some of the more important environmental, socioeconomic, and political factors that have shaped the character of the low-income housing market of the city, with an emphasis on the impact of public policy.

Racialization and Subsidized Low-Income Housing in American Cities

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Twyla Blackmond Larnell ◽  
Cameron Williams
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
American Cities ◽  
Low Income Housing

Urbanization and Political Demand Making: Political Participation Among the Migrant Poor in Latin American Cities

1974 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 1125-1146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne A. Cornelius
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Political System ◽  
Migrant Population ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Demand Creation ◽  
National Governments ◽  
American Cities ◽  
Political Demand

This paper investigates the proposition that rapid urbanization produces significant changes in the kinds, volume, and intensity of demand making aimed at local and national governments, leading to political system “overload” and pressure for major shifts in resource allocation. Drawing upon data gathered among low-income migrants to Mexico City and other Latin American cities, the paper analyzes the process through which objective needs are converted into demands upon government. The findings indicate that there are often major lags in the process of demand creation among cityward migrants, and that many kinds of felt needs are viewed by migrants as needs to be satisfied primarily through individual rather than governmental action.Data are presented on the incidence of demand making among the migrant population and the substantive nature of the demands they make upon government. Strategies used in attempting to influence government decisions are described, and the attitudes and perceptions underlying the migrant's preference among alternative strategies are analyzed. The long-term propensity of migrants and their offspring to engage in demand making with regard to broad social and economic issues rather than individual or community-related needs is assessed.

Reproducing Tradition: Everyday Public Space in Popular Neighbourhoods in Mexico

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
Mauricio Hernandez Bonilla
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
The Public ◽  
Spatial Expressions ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
American Cities

In Latin American cities a great part of the urban environment has grown through self-help processes leading to informal settlements. In the Mexican context, informal settlements are called “colonias populares” which means people’s or popular neighbourhoods. In the late 1960s Turner (1969) argued that popular neighbourhoods should be reconsidered as environments which are socially and culturally responsive to the needs of the inhabitants, as the architecture produced by low-income settlers is based on a system responsive to the changing needs and demands of the users. In these settlements the built environment is the result of the freedom available to inhabitants to take decisions and shape their own environment. This in turn gives place to a myriad of spatial expressions in which culture, identity and popular character are imprinted in both the private and public spaces. This paper explores these issues in the spaces between the dwellings in the public realm.

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