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Lecture 5: Housing in Cities ~ Part 2, Gilbert and Gentrification (Global…
Lecture 5: Housing in Cities ~ Part 2, Gilbert and Gentrification
Housing Policy since the 1980s - Gilbert, 2014
As a result of declining state governance, majority of public housing agencies were closed and responsibilities remitted to the private sector, free from regulation and held less at accountability. Public states simply serviced as facilitating enablers.
"By the early 1990s, it was becoming clear that the new free-market approach had aggravated the problems of poverty and inequality" : 307
Most governments realised in-situ housing improvements were more superior as opposed to demolition, as it protects networks - projects such as Favela-Bairro in Rio de Janeiro "convinced many officials that such an approach can should be replicated worldwide".
This had flaws as it ignored the problems associated with land tutelage, credit loans etc.
One problem of housing is that "most governments are obsessed with the dream of creating nations of home owners" - thus much policy ignores the billion or so who rent or share accommodation in the global south (UN-Habitat, 2011)
Many residents needs short term accommodation for work/travel - "perhaps they should develop a policy for rental housing to cater for that sector of demand?" :309
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