Land Lines Julho 2015
Features
The Evolution of Manufactured Homes
Comfortable and attractive, today’s factory-built abodes are energy-efficient, less than half the price of site-built houses, and five times faster to build. They’re also permanently affordable when owners form cooperatives to buy the land around them.
Why Small Property Rights Housing Is Big in China
Nearly one-quarter of residential units in Chinese cities are illicit, built and sold by village collectives on land that the state has not yet approved for urban use. The authors consider the legal, economic, social, and political factors driving and enabling this widespread and burgeoning form of...
Neighborhood Organizers Become Housing Developers
An increasingly popular tool to prevent displacement of low-income households in gentrifying neighborhoods, community land trusts often develop from grassroots neighborhood organizations—a natural progression that poses challenges nonetheless. The authors explore how five communities made the...
