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1. A Global Perspective on Land Use Regulations and Housing Outcomes

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2022
   Cynthia Goytia and Eric J. Heikkila

   This 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...

2. 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, Brazil
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Maio 2021
   Line Algoed, Alejandro Cotté Morales, Tarcyla Fidalgo Ribeiro, María E. Hernández Torrales, Lyvia Rodríguez Del Valle, and Theresa Williamson

   This 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...

3. Housing Affordability in Chinese Cities

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Abril 2020
   Li Sun

   Over 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...

4. Urban Land Value Capture in São Paulo, Addis Ababa, and Hyderabad

   Differing Interpretations, Equity Impacts, and Enabling Conditions
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Janeiro 2020
   Anjali Mahendra, Robin King, Erin Gray, Maria Hart, Laura Azeredo, Luana Betti, Surya Prakash, Amartya Deb, Elleni Ashebir, and Asmaa Ibrahim

   This 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...

5. Housing Affordability in a Global Perspective

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Novembro 2018
   Achilles Kallergis, Shlomo Angel, Yang Liu, Alejandro M. Blei, Nicolás Galarza, and Patrick Lamson-Hall

   This 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...

6. Strengthening Urban Resilience through Nature

   The potential of ecosystem-based measures for reduction of landslide risk in Rio de Janeiro
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2018
   Wofram Lange, Simone Sandholz, and Udo Nehren

   Ecosystem-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...

7. Where do Property Rights Matter More?

   Explaining the Variation in Demand for Property Titles across Cities in Mexico
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Maio 2017
   Paavo Monkkonen

   Existing 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...

8. Land Values, Property Rights, and Home Ownership

   Implications for Property Taxation in Peru
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Fevereiro 2018
   Zackary Hawley, Juan José Miranda, and W. Charles Sawyer

   This 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...

9. Transportation in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Maio 2013
   Jacob Koch, Luis Antonio Lindau, and Carlos David Nassi

   This 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...

10. 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 Trabalho
    Setembro 2014
    Xiaofang Shen and Fan Tu

    This 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...