Viewpoint
Slums, tenants and home-ownership: on blindness to the obvious
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12714280 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan Gilbert (University College London, Pearson Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Development Planning Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-6743 • E-ISSN: 1478-3401 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3828/idpr.30.2.1 |
| OpenAlex | W2169332805 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 17 |
Up to one billion tenants may be living in cities across the globe, but most governments continue to ignore them. Insofar as they recognise that tenants exist, the policy is to turn them into home-owners. Even in the UK and US, where this strategy has been underway for some years, it has not managed to reduce the numbers of tenants during the last decade. With the sub-prime crisis, the proportion of tenants is likely to rise. In the rest of the world, few governments recognise that renting is an essential shelter option. This viewpoint demonstrates why tenants and landlords are not likely to disappear, and explains why, for many, renting is a vital housing option. Fundamentally, it is a plea for a tenure-neutral shelter policy
Business · Economic growth · Economics · Globe · Plea · Political science · Renting · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Sampling in an Urban Environment
Residential Transformation in South Africa—Reopening the ‘Dead’ Capital Debate
New agendas and ‘good’ urbanism? Shelter and tenure transition in a low-income Jamaican neighbourhood
The research–policy dialectic
Situating slums
Beyond the return of the ‘slum’
Epilogue
Informal rental housing in the South
High rises and low-quality shelter
Understanding residential mobility
Disruption and recovery of intangible resources during environmental crises
Citizens in the middle class
Ill-health and poverty
Self-builder landlordism
Tenants' and owners' participation in rotating savings groups and help groups
Conceptualizing the connections of formal and informal housing markets in low- and middle-income countries
Investigating housing tenures beyond homeownership
Collateral Damage? Transforming Subprime Slum Dwellers into Homeowners
Life and Liberty in the Pursuit of Housing
Infrastructural citizenship
From Tenants to Homeowners
Experiencing liminality
The rise (and fall?) of a state land bank
Augmented informality
Rental housing
Free housing for the poor
Housing tenure in Latin American cities
Collective or individual titles? Conflict over tenure regularisation in a Kenyan informal settlement
The Challenge of Slums
Privatisation of state housing
From slum to ghetto
Pirates and invaders
Evaluating Policy Towards Increasing Owner Occupation
The Rhythms of the Yards
Socio-economic differentials and stated housing preferences in Guangzhou, China
Housing needs of migrant women industrial workers in Surabaya
Strategies for urban survival? Women landlords in Gaborone, Botswana
Helping the poor through housing subsidies
Heterogeneity and dynamics in China's emerging urban housing market
Landlordism in Third World Urban Low-income Settlements
The Return of the Slum
A legacy of control? The capital subsidy for housing, and informal settlement intervention in South Africa
Social and Spatial Implications of Housing Reform in China
A Home is for Ever? Residential Mobility and Homeownership in Self-Help Settlements
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,65 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2022 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |