Examining responses to informality in the Global South: A framework for community land trusts and informal settlements

Basile, Patricia; Ehlenz, Meagan M.

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2019.102108

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“…Urban informal housing refers to unplanned housing areas or housing that violates building codes within the urban context ( Balise and Ehlenz, 2020 ; Zhu, 2020 ). Roughly one-quarter of the global population lives in informal housing areas, such as slums, urban villages, self-built housing, and clustered dormitories, making the health risks of informal housing an important public issue ( UN-Habitat, 2015 ).…”

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“…With regard to today's cities, building forms and residential environments can vary substantially, and low-income migrants usually live in informal housing characterized by substandard dwelling conditions ( Howden-Chapman et al, 2008 ). Because of the vulnerabilities of urban informal housing to the spread of COVID-19, planning interventions are supposed to prioritize improving the dwelling conditions of informal housing within cities, and the key role of local government through active reforms and institutional changes is necessary ( Basile & Ehlenz, 2020 ; Wilkinson, 2020 ).…”

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Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for urban informal housing and planning interventions: Evidence from Singapore

Zhu

Yan

2022

Habitat International

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Section: Understanding the Public Health Risks Of Urban Informal Hous...mentioning

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Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for urban informal housing and planning interventions: Evidence from Singapore

Zhu

Yan

2022

Habitat International

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“…At the same time, policymakers worldwide have implemented various strategies to eliminate or improve such settlements. However, existing strategies present substantial gaps in the long-term improvement of residents' quality of life, sustaining housing affordability and tenure security, and promoting community control (Basile & Ehlenz, 2020).…”

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Community Land Trusts in Contexts of Informality: Process, politics and challenges of implementation

Basile¹,

Ribeiro²

2022

RHJ

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Informal settlements house a significant portion of the world's population, who frequently struggle due to lack of proper housing, urban infrastructure, and insecure tenure. This is an overwhelming reality in Global South countries, requiring alternatives to guarantee permanent and secure affordable housing to residents while promoting community empowerment and quality of life improvements. Community land trusts offer promise for housing struggles due to their mechanism of securing housing affordability permanently and their premise of community control of development. However, despite such promise, there are scarce experiences of community land trusts in contexts of informality. Based on recent and ongoing CLT implementation experiences in Puerto Rico and Brazil, we explore the process, politics, and challenges of community land trust implementation in informal settlements. We consider its potentiality to support housing struggles and mitigate long-lasting dispossession in different urban and housing realities throughout the urban Global South.

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“…In the past 3 decades, Latin American cities assisted the growth of gated communities, not only occupied by the upper class but also by the middle class, which contributed to public space privatization and housing segregation [20,21]. This way, the quantitative and qualitative insufficiency of affordable housing becomes responsible for the large expression of informal settlements and general lack of infrastructures [22], making evident the strong relationship between the socioeconomic population characteristics, its residential location and the infrastructure availability [23].…”

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Urban Planning and Residential Segregation in Brazil—The Failure of the “Special Zone of Social Interest” Instrument in Londrina City (PR)

Costa

Antonello

2021

Sustainability

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The objective of this analysis is linked to the discussion of urban residential segregation marked by the Brazilian urban land structure and perpetuated by urban planning instruments at the municipal level. The spatial focus of the study is the municipality of Londrina (state of Paraná/Brazil). We aimed to analyze the relationship between urban zoning and the dynamics of residential segregation, unfolding two foci: verify to what extent the objectives presented in the municipal instrument translate the objectives of the instrument at the federal level (the City Statute–CE) and the national program “My Home, My Life” aimed to provide housing to socially vulnerable populations; the second focus, aims to assess how the planning instrument—the Special Zone of Social Interest (ZEIS), contemplated in the Land Use and Occupation Law and in the Municipal Master Plan of Londrina (PDPML, 2008)—materializes in practice the objectives of promoting equity in access to housing. The results show that although the objectives defined at the federal level are transposed to the municipal level, demonstrating a theoretical coherence between the instruments, there are flaws in their implementation. The case study results show that the urban zoning of Londrina has as a guideline a segregationist territorial ordering, leading to a residential segregation of the population with low purchasing power. On the other hand, the planning instrument that could change this reality is the ZEIS that, on the contrary, reinforced social housing in the periphery, conditioning the right to the city and perpetuating the social vulnerability of disadvantaged groups, in a process common to other Brazilian cities. Such constraints make relevant the establishment of land reserves for social housing based on clear roles of a social and functional mix, reinforced by the combat of vacant spaces and the definition of minimal housing and infrastructure densities to allow urban occupation.

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Examining responses to informality in the Global South: A framework for community land trusts and informal settlements

Cited by 21 publications

References 86 publications

Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for urban informal housing and planning interventions: Evidence from Singapore

Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for urban informal housing and planning interventions: Evidence from Singapore

Community Land Trusts in Contexts of Informality: Process, politics and challenges of implementation

Urban Planning and Residential Segregation in Brazil—The Failure of the “Special Zone of Social Interest” Instrument in Londrina City (PR)

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