Housing, the State and the Poor

Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities

Bibliographic Data

ID23398581
AuthorsAlan Gilbert, Peter M Ward (0000-0002-8867-176X)
Year1985
Publication date1985-01-31
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byHousing, The State and the Poor: Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities, Franklin D Wilson, 1987
Reviewed byHousing, the State and the Poor: Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities, Peter Lloyd, 1986
Reviewed byHousing, The state and the poor: Policy and practice in three Latin American cities, Julio D Dávila, 1985
VenueHousing, the State and the Poor (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511735363
OpenAlexW4214706244
Open LibraryOL34449884M
ISBN9780511735363
LanguageEN
Citations received229

Originally published in 1985, this book is concerned with the housing and service needs of the poor in Latin America and how they are articulated and satisfied. It examines the aims and implementation of government policies towards low-income housing dwellers and tries to relate those policies to the wider interests of the state. It discusses how the poor perceive the constraints on barrio servicing and improvement, their involvement in community organisations and the role the community and its leaders play in influencing state action. Since housing and servicing issues directly impinge on the interests of politicians, bureaucrats, landowners and real-estate developers, as well as on those of the poor, patterns of provision mirror closely the nature of the relationships between the poor and the wider urban society. The main theme of this book is thus the allocation of resources within urban society and the operation of political and administrative power at city level. The book will interest not only those concerned with housing and planning but also those who wish to understand social and economic policies towards the poor in most kinds of Third World city.

Action (physics) · Affordable housing · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Housing estate · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Public housing · Public relations · Real estate · Service (business) · State (computer science) · Theme (computing) · Engineering · Law · Marketing · Public Administration · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Bogotá · Colombia · Housing · Latin America · Mexico · Mexico City · Poor · South America · Valencia · Venezuela

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