Slums, Favelas, and Urban Villages: Housing Policy in the Global South

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 (813) ◽  
pp. 15-21
Author(s):  
Xuefei Ren
Keyword(s):  
Housing Policy ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Global South ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Urban Villages

Comparing China, India, and Brazil reveals that current housing policies in all three countries have produced new forms of exclusion for inhabitants of informal settlements.

scholarly journals The Conditions for after Work: Financialization and Informalization in Posttransition South Africa

PMLA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 127 (4) ◽  
pp. 782-799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Maria Makhulu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Global South ◽  
First Century ◽  
Informal Employment ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Informal Economies ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
Modes Of Life

This essay situates the problem of twenty-first-century work in the global South—specifically, in South Africa—to challenge northern theories of the crisis of work. Addressing the break between Fordism and post-Fordism peculiar to the postcolonial context, it argues that new regimes of work should be understood in relation both to longer histories of colonial resistance to proletarianization (to the racisms of the shop floor) and to colonial Fordisms, as well as to the way these two factors inform the current expansion of informal employment. What practices and forms of life emerge from the precarity of informal economies and informal settlements? How are precarious modes of life connected to and informed by the steady dematerialization of the economy through financialization?

Measuring Municipal Participation in Homeless Governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 52-66
Author(s):  
Charley E. Willison
Keyword(s):  
Housing Policy ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Supportive Housing ◽  
The Political ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Chronic Homelessness ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Municipal Level

Chapter 4 examines national variation in municipal responses to chronic homelessness, identifying the prevalence of municipal-level supportive housing policies among municipalities affected by homelessness in the United States and identifying and examining factors associated with the presence of a municipal-level supportive housing policy. The presence of municipal-level supportive housing policies is an indication of evidence-based policy adoption to address chronic homelessness effectively in urban areas. To date, there has been almost no research on the political predictors of the adoption of these evidence-based policies. Results demonstrate that most municipalities facing homelessness challenges do not have supportive housing policies. Of the municipalities in the data set, only 40% had a municipal-level supportive housing policy. These municipalities tend to be: more liberal; sanctuary cities; have fewer but better funded nonprofit health organizations; lower rates of municipal governmental fragmentation; and located in states without Medicaid expansion.

The pathology of housing policies in Iran: a criterion-based analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moslem Zarghamfard ◽  
Abolfazl Meshkini ◽  
Ahmad Pourahmad ◽  
Beniamino Murgante
Keyword(s):  
Housing Policy ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Fuzzy Ahp ◽  
Fuzzy Topsis ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Purpose Housing policy is a key tool in urban development and has multiple functions that directly affect human welfare. This study aims to review housing policies in Iran from a critical perspective. In fact, the study and pathology of housing policies are considered in this research. Design/methodology/approach To advance this research, a quantitative (fuzzy TOPSIS and fuzzy AHP) method was used to rank the policies and the qualitative method (interview and literature review) was used for the pathology of housing policies. Findings The failure of policies to provide housing in Iran is decisive, but social housing policy has a relative superiority to other policies. Causes of failure of Iranian housing policies are as follows in a pathological perspective: commodification and speculative approach to housing; lake of social and physical sustainability; social stratification and classification; inconsistency with environmental conditions; non-indigenous nature of housing policies; exclusion of local institutions in the decision-making process; and the dominance of a populist perspective on housing. Originality/value This study is a comprehensive study because it has been extracted from the dissertation. By reading this study, the reader will be aware of the general conditions of the Iranian housing sector.

AN ASSESSMENT OF THE EVOLUTION OF HOUSING POLICY FRAMEWORK

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clinton Aigbavboa
Keyword(s):  
Housing Policy ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Animal Skin

Globally, housing policies have been used as an attempt to try and address housing problems, particularly in respect to the low-income earners, with the view of helping them access better housing. The evolution of housing policy in developing countries has been studied and identified in different ways, however, this paper present a robust theoretical background of the developments in housing policy framework. The data used in this paper were derived from secondary sources only; through a detailed review of related literature on the subject to meet the research objectives. The study is an in-depth literature exploration of the theoretical perspective of the housing studies framework. The literature reviewed found that the theory of housing had its origin in the Paleolithic period when homo-sapiens began to use natural materials like stone, wood, leaves, animal skin and other similar items to create shelter from elements of weather. It was also found that there are various theoretical perspective frameworks that have been used in the study of housing, such as political, social, developmental, institutional, and radical perspectives amongst others. This study provides a robust theoretical framework used in housing study.

Propulsions

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-72
Author(s):  
Thomas Asher ◽  
Steve Ouma Akoth
Keyword(s):  
Urban Poor ◽  
Informal Settlement ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Global South ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Social Cooperation ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
The Social

Abstract This essay foregrounds mobility in cities in the global South in order to recast our current understanding of how informal settlements function and how residents of these neighborhoods navigate increasingly feral economies. Focusing largely on an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, the piece explores the social worlds animated by mobility, bringing renewed attention to social and spatial practices. These include strategies of economic and social cooperation used by residents to spatially constitute communities, imbue them with meaning, and in the process create ladders to opportunity. The essay also demonstrates that when development agencies and advocates of the urban poor operate without a sociological understanding of the role of mobility, the results can be devastating.

From central to marginal: The trajectory of Israel’s public-housing policy

Urban Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (11) ◽  
pp. 2432-2447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravit Hananel
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Housing Construction ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
The Past ◽  
Urban Diversity

Over the past decade, in the wake of the global housing crisis, many countries have again turned to public housing to increase the supply of affordable housing for disadvantaged residents. Because the literature and past experience have generally shown public-housing policies to be contrary to the urban-diversity approach, many countries are reshaping their policies and focusing on a mix of people and of land uses. In this context, the Israeli case is particularly interesting. In Israel, as in many other countries (such as Germany and England), there was greater urban diversity in public-housing construction during the 1950s and 1960s (following the state’s establishment in 1948). However, at the beginning of the new millennium, when many countries began to realise the need for change and started reshaping their public-housing policies in light of the urban-diversity approach, Israel responded differently. In this study I use urban diversity’s main principles – the mix of population and land uses – to examine the trajectory of public-housing policy in Israel from a central housing policy to a marginal one. The findings and the lessons derived from the Israeli case are relevant to a variety of current affordable-housing developments in many places.

scholarly journals Construcción de capital social en barrios vulnerables: un desafío emergente para la política habitacional

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Moreno Romero ◽  
Jeanne W. Simon
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Capital Social ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Disadvantaged Neighborhoods ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Current Systems

RESUMENEl presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar los desafíos de la política habitacional chilena, en torno a la generación de capital social en barrios vulnerables. Se plantea la necesidad de complementar los actuales sistemas de evaluación y diseño de las políticas urbanas y habitacionales, desde el enfoque integral del capital social.Palabras clave: Capital social- barrios - política social - política habitacional.Construção de capital social em bairros vulneráveis: Um desafio emergente para a política habitacionalRESUMOO presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar os desafios da política habitacional chilena, em torno da geração de capital social em bairros vulneráveis. Propõe-se a necessidade de complementar os atuais sistemas de avaliação e desenho das políticas urbanas e habitacionais, desde o enfoque integral do capital social.Palavras chave: Capital social - bairros - política social - política habitacional.Building social capital in disadvantaged neighborhoods: An emerging challenge for housing policyABSTRACTThis article aims to analyze the challenges of the Chilean housing policy around the creation of social capital in disadvantaged neighborhoods. It expresses the need to supplement current systems of evaluation and design of urban and housing policies from the comprehensive approach of social capital.Key Words: Social capital - neighborhoods - social policy - housing policy.

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