Between self-help – and institutional housing: A bird's eye view of Mexico's housing production for low and (lower) middle-income groups

Bredenoord, Jan; Verkoren, Otto

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2009.11.016

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“…Now large-scale housing solutions are being realized in China; offering a vast production of high-rise apartment buildings, but this is exceptional. Mexico is exemplary for its successful large-scale (semi-) public housing programmes implemented by institutions like INFONAVIT and FOVISSSTE, but even with such approaches, informal self-help housing has never been absent (Bredenoord & Verkoren, 2010).…”

Section: The Urgency Of the Urban Housing Questionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yet, some of the contributions in this special issue mention already some significant exceptions to this rule, e.g. the role of CEMEX in Mexico (Bredenoord & Verkoren, 2010) and (micro) finance institutions which aim at supporting self-help housing initiatives in various other countries. Other promising experiences come from El Salvador.…”

Section: Towards a Differentiated Assisted Self-help Approach For Thementioning

confidence: 99%

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Pro-poor housing policies: Rethinking the potential of assisted self-help housing

Bredenoord

Lindert

2010

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Section: The Urgency Of the Urban Housing Questionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Towards a Differentiated Assisted Self-help Approach For Thementioning

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Pro-poor housing policies: Rethinking the potential of assisted self-help housing

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Lindert

2010

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“…Apart from that, the availability of mortgage finance also increases demand in housing (Bredenoord and Verkoren, 2010). The changes in the quantity of housing demand will affect real prices only if the long-run housing supply is positive (Green and Hendershott, 1996).…”

Section: House Pricementioning

confidence: 99%

Housing Affordability Problems among Young Households

Zyed

Aziz

Hanif

2016

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Young households are facing various challenges especially as a new entrant in the employment sector. More specifically, there have been worries that young households may not be able to afford a house due to the increasing house prices and cost of living. The aim of this paper is to ascertain the housing affordability problems among young households in Greater Kuala Lumpur. The aim is supported with two objectives which are to identify the housing affordability problems among young households and to discuss the relationship between the identified problems. This paper adopts the case study method and Greater Kuala Lumpur is chosen as the location of the case study. This paper concludes that the main problem faced by young households is limited supply of affordable housing in the market. Even more, the perceived affordable housing in the market is open to all income groups which suggest that young households has to compete with other income groups in the market for homeownership.

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“…The majority of families have obtained their land and built their homes with their own resources. It has been estimated that between the 1940s and 1970s the combined efforts of public policy initiatives and market instruments amounted to only 35 per cent of housing production, and that the remaining 65 per cent were homes that families built mobilising their own resources (Bredenoord and Verkoren, 2010). By 2010, between 50 and 60 per cent of all homes in the country had been built by families using their own resources, and every year 40 per cent of new homes were built without any government or market support (SHF/CIDOC, 2010).…”

Section: The Reliance On Familistic Arrangementsmentioning

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The Development of Housing in Mexico: A Welfare Regime Approach

Leyer¹

2015

Social Policy & Society

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R i c a r d o V e lá z q u e z L e y e rHousing represents a basic human need. Families can access housing through public policy, market mechanisms or by their own resources. This article adopts a welfare regime approach to analyse the housing sector in Mexico. The objective is to map the Mexican housing regime and to reveal its major outcomes. The study reveals the roles that public policy, markets and families have played for housing provision in the country's recent history. Findings show that whilst recent policy changes have enhanced the government's intervention in the housing sector, they have reproduced the unequal and fragmented nature of the country's social policy, and their design based on a market rationale has not resolved the housing needs for the majority of the population. The state and markets fail to provide adequate support for the majority of Mexican families, which continue to bear the heaviest responsibility for housing provision.

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Between self-help – and institutional housing: A bird's eye view of Mexico's housing production for low and (lower) middle-income groups

Cited by 15 publications

References 2 publications

Pro-poor housing policies: Rethinking the potential of assisted self-help housing

Pro-poor housing policies: Rethinking the potential of assisted self-help housing

Housing Affordability Problems among Young Households

The Development of Housing in Mexico: A Welfare Regime Approach

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