Search Results - subject:"informal housing"

The external effects of public housing developments on informal housing : the case of Medellín, Colombia

Posada, Héctor Mauricio; García, Andrés; Londoño, David - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 103 (2024) 1, pp. 1-18

programs on the neighboring communities. Our results demonstrate that these projects contribute to a reduction in informal … housing, poverty levels, and crime within the surrounding neighborhood. This external effect is significant and often …

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"They're just trying to survive" : the relationship between social vulnerability, informal housing, and environmental risks in Loíza, Puerto Rico, USA

García, Ivis; Hernandez, Nicolas - In: World development sustainability 2 (2023), pp. 1-7

, this study asks what is the relationship between informal housing, social vulnerability, and environmental hazards in the … federal government entities approach informal housing when providing assistance after the 2017 Hurricanes Irma and Maria. It …

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Political economy of informal housing scenario in Sebeta, Furi, and Gelan Guda subcity of Sheger City, Oromia, Ethiopia

Debele, Efa Tadesse; Negussie, Taye - In: Research in globalization 7 (2023), pp. 1-13

Access to housing is a fundamental necessity for individuals. Even though the motives of informal housing are complex … selected to substantiate research questions. Empirical findings indicated that informal housing had become the prevailing … informal housing. However, gain motives, need motives, and structural hospitalities were significant variables that …

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Political economy of the "informal" housing question : institutional-hybridity of the postcolonial state

Khan, Danish - In: Review of international political economy 30 (2023) 6, pp. 2052-2068

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Regulating informal housing for the Syrian reconstruction. Between urban renewal and upgrading

Porras-Gómez, Antonio-Martín - In: Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law 16 (2023) 3, pp. 169-184

Purpose Informal housing stands out as a major challenge surrounding the massive reconstruction of Syrian cities … offers a legal-institutional analysis of the informal housing phenomenon and the corresponding regulatory responses in Syria … provided. Findings First, informal housing in Syria has been fostered by the existence of an erratic regulation, particularly …

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Informal housing clearance, housing market, and labor supply

Yang, Xintong; Dong, Xin; Yi, Chengdong - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 78 (2022), pp. 1-18

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Backyarding : theory and evidence for South Africa

Brueckner, Jan K.; Rabe, Claus; Selod, Harris - 2018

This paper explores the incentives for backyarding, an expanding category of urban land-use in developing countries that has proliferated South Africa. The theoretical model exposes the trade-off faced by the homeowner in deciding how much backyard land to rent out: loss of yard space...

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The legal framework for the Syrian urban reconstruction

Porras-Gómez, Antonio-Martín - In: Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law 13 (2021) 3, pp. 203-217

Purpose As the Syrian civil war winds down, the massive reconstruction of the devastated cities has become a recurring subject of political and scientific discussions. A crucial question pervades all these debates: is the current legal framework adequate for confronting the reconstruction...

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The role of informal housing in lowering China’s urbanization costs

Niu, Dongxiao; Sun, Weizeng; Zheng, Siqi - In: Regional science & urban economics 91 (2021), pp. 1-16

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Residential satisfaction in formal and informal neighborhoods: the case of Istanbul, Turkey

Türkoğlu, Handan; Terzi, Fatih; Salihoğlu, Tayfun; … - In: Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural … 13 (2019) 1, pp. 112-132

Purpose Residential satisfaction can be viewed as a part of life satisfaction. There are many studies related to the relationship between residents’ satisfaction with their environments and the quality of those environments. The purpose of this paper is to examine how this satisfaction differs...

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