Gender, Livelihoods and Rental Housing Markets in the Global South: The Urban Poor as Landlords and Tenants

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Urban Poor ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Housing Markets ◽  
Global South

scholarly journals New Insights into Rental Housing Markets across the United States: Web Scraping and Analyzing Craigslist Rental Listings

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Boeing
Keyword(s):  
Census Data ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Housing Markets ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Patterns ◽  
Single Digit ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
Apartment Complexes ◽  
The U.S

Current sources of data on rental housing – such as the census or commercial databases that focus on large apartment complexes – do not reflect recent market activity or the full scope of the U.S. rental market. To address this gap, we collected, cleaned, analyzed, mapped, and visualized 11 million Craigslist rental housing listings. The data reveal fine-grained spatial and temporal patterns within and across metropolitan housing markets in the U.S. We find some metropolitan areas have only single-digit percentages of listings below fair market rent. Nontraditional sources of volunteered geographic information offer planners real-time, local-scale estimates of rent and housing characteristics currently lacking in alternative sources, such as census data.

Urban equality and the SDGs: three provocations for a relational agenda

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (0) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Stephanie Butcher
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Global South ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Significant Potential ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Equitable Outcomes ◽  
The City

We live in an increasingly urban, increasingly unequal world. This is nowhere more evident than in cities of the global South, where many residents face deep injustices in their ability to access vital services, participate in decision-making or to have their rights recognised as citizens. In this regard, the rallying cry of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to ‘leave no one behind’ offers significant potential to guide urbanisation processes towards more equitable outcomes, particularly for the urban poor. Yet the SDGs have also faced a series of criticisms which have highlighted the gaps and silences in moving towards a transformative agenda. This article explores the potentials of adopting a relational lens to read the SDGs, as a mechanism to navigate these internal contradictions and critiques and build pathways to urban equality. In particular, it offers three questions if we want to place urban equality at the heart of the agenda: who owns the city; who produces knowledge about the city; and who is visible in the city? Drawing from the practices of organised groups of the urban poor, this article outlines the key lessons for orienting this agenda towards the relational and transformative aims of urban equality.

Negotiating gatekeepers and positionality in building trust for accessing the urban poor in the Global South

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lutfun Nahar Lata
Keyword(s):  
Urban Poor ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Global South ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Building Trust ◽  
Building Rapport ◽  
Female Researcher

PurposeThis paper explores the importance of building trust and rapport with participants using gatekeepers and insider-outsider dynamics in accessing vulnerable research participants in the Global South.Design/methodology/approachThis paper draws data from a qualitative case study conducted in Sattola slum in Dhaka.FindingsFindings suggest that access to participants can be gained through building rapport and trust with participants. A trusting relationship further helps the researcher to explore the processes of social exclusion experienced by the participants.Originality/valueFew studies is published on female researchers building trust with vulnerable research participants negotiating gatekeepers and their subjectivity in the field. The paper contributes original insights into this from fieldwork carried out by a middle-class female researcher in Dhaka. It raises important issues in securing the trust of participants when they are part of disadvantaged, exploited or generally vulnerable populations.

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.

Demand for Rental Housing: Evidence from Slum Settlements in Delhi

Urbanisation ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-27
Author(s):  
Manish Gupta ◽  
Ruchita Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Housing Consumption ◽  
Access To Water ◽  
Housing Attributes ◽  
Good Access ◽  
Important Form

Government policies have largely focussed on ownership-based models while addressing the challenge of low-income housing in urban India. Possibilities of rental housing, which is an important form of housing for the urban poor, have not been explored meaningfully. This article estimates the demand for rental housing and its attributes in Delhi’s slums using primary survey data of tenant households. Estimates of demand for rental housing attributes reveal rent to be higher for dwellings that have a separate kitchen, bathroom, reasonably good access to water and wide approach roads. The results further show the demand for rental housing to be inelastic with respect to price (i.e., rent) and income. However, rent has a greater influence on housing consumption than income. Households prefer living closer to their workplace and value security of tenure. Policies aimed at moderating rents are likely to be more effective in enhancing housing consumption. The policy focus should be on improving infrastructure in the slums, their in situ redevelopment and ensuring security of tenure.

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