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A Global Perspective on Land Use Regulations and Housing Outcomes
Documentos de trabajoJunio 2022Cynthia Goytia and Eric J. HeikkilaThis paper examines the relationship between land use regulations and housing outcomes, especially housing affordability and informality. Using a unique and important database of 191 metropolitan...
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Community Land Trusts and Informal Settlements
Assessing the Feasibility of CLT Instruments Developed by the Caño Martin Peña Communities in Puerto Rico for Favelas in Rio de Janeiro, BrazilDocumentos de trabajoMayo 2021Line Algoed, Alejandro Cotté Morales, Tarcyla Fidalgo Ribeiro, María E. Hernández Torrales, Lyvia Rodríguez Del Valle, and Theresa WilliamsonThis report presents an analysis conducted to assess the feasibility of community land trusts (CLT) developed by the Caño Martin Peña communities in Puerto Rico as instruments to...
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Housing Affordability in Chinese Cities
Documentos de trabajoAbril 2020Li SunOver the past decade, house prices have kept soaring in Chinese cities, making housing affordability one of the biggest social and political issues in urban China. Existing research on housing...
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Urban Land Value Capture in São Paulo, Addis Ababa, and Hyderabad
Differing Interpretations, Equity Impacts, and Enabling ConditionsDocumentos de trabajoEnero 2020Anjali Mahendra, Robin King, Erin Gray, Maria Hart, Laura Azeredo, Luana Betti, Surya Prakash, Amartya Deb, Elleni Ashebir, and Asmaa IbrahimThis paper presents analysis of the fiscal and equity impacts of urban land value capture instruments based on three case studies from the global south. These include the Lideta redevelopment in...
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Housing Affordability in a Global Perspective
Documentos de trabajoNoviembre 2018Achilles Kallergis, Shlomo Angel, Yang Liu, Alejandro M. Blei, Nicolás Galarza, and Patrick Lamson-HallThis paper discusses housing affordability in cities the world over based on data from the Land and Housing Survey in a Global Sample of Cities. We report on the composition of the housing sector...
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Strengthening Urban Resilience through Nature
The potential of ecosystem-based measures for reduction of landslide risk in Rio de JaneiroDocumentos de trabajoJunio 2018Wofram Lange, Simone Sandholz, and Udo NehrenEcosystem-based measures have a high potential to replace or build on engineered solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), not only in rural but also in urban...
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Where do Property Rights Matter More?
Explaining the Variation in Demand for Property Titles across Cities in MexicoDocumentos de trabajoMayo 2017Paavo MonkkonenExisting empirical research has established that stronger legal claims to property in urban areas have significant market value, but previous studies examine this question in a single city or market...
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Land Values, Property Rights, and Home Ownership
Implications for Property Taxation in PeruDocumentos de trabajoFebrero 2018Zackary Hawley, Juan José Miranda, and W. Charles SawyerThis paper examines land values and the associated property tax implications of formal property rights, informal property rights, and squatting. Using data from the Peruvian Living Standards...
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Transportation in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Documentos de trabajoMayo 2013Jacob Koch, Luis Antonio Lindau, and Carlos David NassiThis paper presents findings on transportation patterns in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, based upon a survey of 2,000 residents in three favelas of diverse typology and geographic location. This study...
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Dealing with “Small Property Rights” in China’s Land Market Development
What Can China Learn from Its Past Reforms and the World Experience?Documentos de trabajoSeptiembre 2014Xiaofang Shen and Fan TuThis research aims to examine the knotty issue in China’s continued land market reform, the so-called “small property right” (SPR) referring to the ambivalent right to the commercial properties...