Financialization of housing policies in Latin America: a comparative perspective of Brazil and Mexico

Neto, Paulo Nascimento; Arreortúa, Luis Alberto Salinas

doi:10.1080/02673037.2019.1680815

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“…Even before the pandemic scenario, the State's actions in informal settlements not infrequently shaped intervention that constitutes true "urbicides" (Mendonça, 2019 ). This seems to be a new frontier of necropolitics, which is stimulated by the State, marked by police violence, material destruction of bodies, and symbolic delegitimization of poorer territories (Nascimento Neto & Arreortua, 2020 ). Urbicide and necropolitics differ in terms of specificity, although sharing the same principled core.…”

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COVID19 in Latin America: informal settlements and the politics of urbicide

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2022

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Informal settlements in Latin America express pandemic idiosyncrasies, calling global attention to historical problems related to a specific urbanization pattern. This article stresses COVID19 implications in the main urban planning canon: the notion of densification as an urban solution. Traditionally invisible social groups and territories acquire relevance, but now as a source of biological risk. Urban density appears as a contradictory trigger point, outlining new debates about informal settlements and their metrics. Evidence shows that trends in health discourse are striving to legitimize and enhance "urbicides" in this scenario, already underway through State action or inaction.

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COVID19 in Latin America: informal settlements and the politics of urbicide

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“…Latin American countries have both similar and different housing policies while improving public access to homes. The countries are common in the geographic heterogeneity and exogenous labor market, but some like Brazil and Mexico transformed housing from a right to a commodity-based individual investment power (Newman et al , 2018; Nascimento Neto and Salinas Arreortua, 2020).…”

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Housing policies with case studies

Shahraki¹

2021

IJHMA

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Purpose This paper aims to suggest a practical model for the production of new homes according to demands. After understanding the inhabitants’ priorities and preferences, the authors will present a programming model for building projects. The authors will meet the goal with knowledge-based development ideas and the experiences of skilled engineers and scholars. Design/methodology/approach The research methods are theoretical studies, a case study strategy, a market analysis, linear planning and classic procedures. All the research methods are problem-oriented. The authors have studied theories related to housing policies and performed field studies with a case study. The case study considers the preferences of applicants and programs building productions according to the ideas and needs. Findings The outcome of this research is a home-building program. The program stands on the particular requirements of responded people and regional characteristics. The authors can simulate this model anywhere in the world where there is a housing crisis. Originality/value This paper is originally based on my studies and practices.

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“…They also note the well documented process of capital markets and monetary policies in ‘core’ countries influencing the opening of household credit in Brazil, and hypothesize about the possibility of other emerging economies responding to external structural conditions in similar ways. Further, as multiple other studies have done (Fernandes and Novy, 2010; Marques and Rodrigues, 2013; Klink and Denaldi, 2014; Rolnik, 2015; Dos Santos Pereira, 2017; Soares et al ., 2017; Lavinas, 2019; Shimbo, 2019; Nascimento Neto and Salinas Arreortua, 2020), they frame Brazil's My House My Life program (Minha Casa Minha Vida; MCMV), launched in 2009, as state‐facilitated financialization introduced to avert the looming economic crisis while forcing low‐ and moderate‐income households into more mortgage debt.…”

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“…Building on the extant literature on financialization, we aim to reflect on and problematize the relationships between different state actors and market forces (Langley, 2008; Van der Zwan, 2014; Aalbers, 2017). While recognizing important similarities between the recent housing development processes of Brazil and Mexico, as previous studies have done (Libertun de Duren, 2018a; 2018b; Molina et al ., 2019; Nascimento Neto and Salinas Arreortua, 2020), we aim to highlight key differences in their housing finance models—and their shifts at different points in time. The financialization of public entities, development companies and households has been quite distinct in each context, leading to diverse implications at different levels.…”

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THE DISTINCTIVE EVOLUTION OF HOUSING FINANCIALIZATION IN BRAZIL AND MEXICO

Reyes¹,

Basile²

2022

Int J Urban Regional Res

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After defaulting on their foreign-debt obligations in the 1980s, several Latin American countries had to restructure their economies to boost market-led growth. Some of the ensuing housing reforms promoted mortgage expansion and mass housing production. Mexico was among the first countries to follow this logic, and in a particularly aggressive manner. Credit liberalization allowed a handful of real estate firms to experience massive expansions in their operations in the 2000s as they were able to build lower-middle-income housing at an accelerated rate by accessing public, pension and private equity funds. Brazil eventually appropriated some aspects of the Mexican housing model, but not others. In the late 2000s, Brazil began providing deep subsidies to low-income households to connect the private supply of housing with a publicly subsidized demand. This article discusses, challenges and moves beyond prior analyses of these processes by contrasting the two countries' housing finance models and examining the more recent (2010s) evolution and normative shifts in their housing and urban development policy agendas. Despite the direct policy transfer between the two contexts, the South-South comparative analysis presented in the article highlights the fluctuating and unstable nature of financialization processes given the varied inclination of national governments to manage, promote or restrict them, or to contain or accentuate capitalist crises and their implications.

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Financialization of housing policies in Latin America: a comparative perspective of Brazil and Mexico

Cited by 17 publications

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COVID19 in Latin America: informal settlements and the politics of urbicide

COVID19 in Latin America: informal settlements and the politics of urbicide

Housing policies with case studies

THE DISTINCTIVE EVOLUTION OF HOUSING FINANCIALIZATION IN BRAZIL AND MEXICO

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