The Impact of the National Housing Program on Residential Segregation in Costa Rica

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ID6404591
AutoresEduardo Pérez-Molina (0000-0002-7730-9677, Universidad de Costa Rica, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen59
Número5
Páginas1700-1727
Fecha de publicación2023-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaUrban Affairs Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/10780874221113514
OpenAlexW4285803534
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas28

Residential socio-economic segregation in Costa Rica had an overall decreasing trend between 1973 and 2011 because of a sustained reduction in the amount of lower income households. However, in 1986, the national housing program was reformed, including a ten-fold increase in housing supply (292 thousand subsidies allocated in 1987-2011, in a country with 1.36 million housing units). The pattern of these subsidies was hypothesized to increase residential segregation in Costa Rica. Segregation indices were estimated per municipality for lower and higher income groups. The impact of social housing subsidies on segregation levels was quantified using a fixed effects model with standard errors corrected for spatial dependence. Social housing supply was found to have historically reduced residential segregation; however, the 1986 reforms created a system that followed the patterns of real estate markets, in turn reducing much of the system’s mitigation effect on residential segregation

Agricultural economics · Business · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Low income housing · Public housing · Real estate · Residential real estate · Subsidized housing · Subsidy · Housing Market and Economics · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Finance