Between informal and illegal in the Global North:

Alterman, Rachelle; Calor, Inês

doi:10.2307/j.ctv13xpsrb.15

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“…(Non)compliance is inscribed in the development of precarious housing in many Southern and Northern contexts (Caldeira, 2017; Alterman and Calor; 2020). Contrary to common belief, such housing is rarely clearly formal or informal (Dovey, 2012), as it situates itself on a boundary between changeable legal regimes and prolonged habitation practices.…”

Section: Liveaboard Boating As a Practice And Informality Trajectoriesmentioning

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BOATS AS HOUSING IN OXFORD, UK: Trajectories of Informality in a High‐Income Context

Galuszka

2024

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In this article I aim to shed light on boat dwelling as an increasingly popular housing practice in the UK. I investigate the changing nature of this practice in times of housing crisis and of the connection between formal and informal approaches, and discuss how decentralized urban actors influence and safeguard their visions of housing. My investigation concentrates on three intertwined strategies boaters in Oxford use to deal with growing regularization and commodification pressures: (non)compliance, formalization and staying under the radar. My findings challenge several assumptions about housing informality in the global North and document the diverse trajectories that informal processes may take. My analysis reveals that informal and semi‐formal solutions are not simply ‘tolerated’ or ‘overlooked’ by the state, but co‐produced by urban dwellers through a repertoire of everyday actions and ad hoc advocacy approaches. The construction of specific trajectories of informal housing emerges at the interface of complex agendas and attitudes that go beyond the generalized roles attributed to the key urban sectors.

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Section: Liveaboard Boating As a Practice And Informality Trajectoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

BOATS AS HOUSING IN OXFORD, UK: Trajectories of Informality in a High‐Income Context

Galuszka

2024

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…First, a multiplicity of political variables may shape the intensity and character of regulatory enforcement (see Short, 2021, for a review), for example, the potential influence of elected officials and interest groups. Second, there are differences in the human and financial resources at the disposal of authorities (Alterman and Calor, 2020;McKay, 2003). Third, while enforcement activities must abide to bureaucratic protocols (Gurran et al, 2022;Harris, 2015;McKay, 2003), they also entail spaces of discretion and informality, as long shown by anthropologists of the state, legal geographers, sociologists and political scientists.…”

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Illegal short-term rentals, regulatory enforcement and informal practices in the age of digital platforms

Colomb

Souza

2023

European Urban and Regional Studies

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This article analyses the challenges of controlling short-term rentals (STR) in an era of intermediation by digital platforms, focusing on the process of regulatory enforcement. Drawing on evidence from large European cities, it investigates how public authorities identify and tackle STR deemed illegal, how operators of illegal STR seek to escape detection, and the relationships between city governments and digital platforms in the process of regulatory enforcement. The article shows what digitalisation and ‘platformisation’ do to the possibility of (local) state regulation of housing informality and illegality in the European context. As platforms have been reluctant to release individualised STR listings to local authorities, the latter have had to rely on imperfect, ‘DIY’ methods of data gathering in the physical and digital worlds, in the context of attempts to regulate STR for public interest objectives such as the protection of the long-term residential stock.

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Non-compliance and non-enforcement: An unexpected outcome of flexible soft densification policy in the Netherlands

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Between informal and illegal in the Global North:

Cited by 7 publications

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BOATS AS HOUSING IN OXFORD, UK: Trajectories of Informality in a High‐Income Context

BOATS AS HOUSING IN OXFORD, UK: Trajectories of Informality in a High‐Income Context

Illegal short-term rentals, regulatory enforcement and informal practices in the age of digital platforms

Non-compliance and non-enforcement: An unexpected outcome of flexible soft densification policy in the Netherlands

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