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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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El Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña
Instrumento Notable de Regularización de Suelo en Asentamientos InformalesDocumentos de trabajoJunio 2018Line Algoed, María E. Hernández Torrales, y Lyvia N. Rodríguez Del ValleEl Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña se creó en 2004 en asentamientos informales aledaños a un canal estuario contaminado, en una localización...
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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...