Housing for Low-Income Urban Families
Economics and Policy in the Developing World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4956875 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D N (0009-0003-0359-7615), Avinash B N, Orville F Grimes, Orville F Grimes Jr |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1/2 |
| Pages | 143 |
| Publication date | 1977-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population and Development Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1971771 |
| OpenAlex | W2113527746 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
The considerable importance of housing to the urban and national economy contrasts sharply with housing conditions and official policies that exist in many developing countries. For all but the middle- and upper-income groups, housing is usually costly in relation to income and the quality of dwellings available. Cramped, crowded, and unsanitary settlements are the lot of low-income families, conditions that debilitate their energy and reduce national productivity. Families in illegal dwellings constantly face the threat of eviction as well as scarcities of water, sewerage, and transport. Often, under the banner of slum clearance, low-income groups are removed to higher-quality dwellings located far from income-earning opportunities and asked to pay rents they cannot afford. This study is intended to contribute to the discussions of housing policy options among urban planners and policymakers in developing countries. It does not attempt to analyze the optimal allocation of investment in urban areas or to suggest what place housing should have in such investment. There is no argument for a shift of capital and other resources from other sectors into housing. Instead, the principal intention is to achieve a better understanding of the workings of the urban housing market, especially as it affects low-income families, so as to bring about an improved use of the resources already used for housing and to allow new resources to be used effectively
Affordable housing · Business · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic rent · Economics · Eviction · Investment (military) · Labour economics · Market economy · Population · Slum · Urban and Rural Development Challenges
The housing and economic development debate revisited
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Where is finance in the financialization of development
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Housing Investment
Squatter Rehabilitation Projects that Support Home-Based Enterprises Create Jobs and Housing
Some second thoughts on sites-and-services
Housing tenure in Latin American cities
Low-income housing under “normal” and post-disaster situations
Rental housing
Spontaneous urban settlements
Low-Income Urban Housing in the Third World
Urban Housing and Financial Markets
Reflections on the Absence of Squatter Settlements in West African Cities
Housing, Organization, and Social Change
Modes of housing provision in developing countries
Single-family courtyard houses in Poland
Immigrants, slums, and housing policy
Seeing the State
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1978 - 2024 (47) |
| Highly cited | No |