State-led housing development in Brazil and India: a machinery for enabling strategy?

Sengupta, Urmi

doi:10.1080/19491247.2018.1510076

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“…In many LA countries, recent state-led housing programs have hybrid forms and arrangements that include government at national and subnational levels, private developers, and financial markets. When discussing broad housing strategies, these programs may be viewed as adaptations of enabling principles and methodologies in place since the 1970s (Sengupta, 2019). State-led housing policies reemerged as an answer to an increasing consensus that the urban poor were not reached by the strategies then adopted.…”

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“…Initially aiming to build one million housing units for low-income Brazilians, MCMV was a milestone in Brazilian housing history by conceptualizing the return to the direct provision of social housing (Sengupta et al., 2018). However, the role played by the financial system and the private non-financial sector links the program to the current phase of enabling strategies (Sengupta, 2019). MCMV incorporates different sub-programs, with varied subsidies and norms, according to household income brackets.…”

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“…The current phase of enabling strategies, initiated in 2000, is marked by state-led large-scale housing policies that include government support for mortgage markets expansion through subsidies so that the private sector is induced to remain engaged in policy implementation. In this sense, the current phase represents a “renewed commitment to the expansion of enabling principles where the state is an active agent” (Sengupta, 2019: 511).…”

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“…In Minha Casa Minha Vida (hereafter MCMV), Brazil’s largest state-led housing program, enabling strategies are explicit since its main purpose is to boost the economy through allocating subsidies to projects led by private actors, often neglecting production quality and location issues (Sengupta, 2019). Despite the importance of discussing broad housing strategies, particularly the mutated versions of enabling principles, this study uses another analytical lens, focusing on implementation issues in a modality of MCMV known as Minha Casa Minha Vida Entidades (hereafter MCMV-E), based on arrangements that include local governments and housing movements.…”

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Improving public housing policies that target low-income households: The value of adding proximity to discretion

Gonzalez

Lima-Silva

Pozzebon

2021

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Research on street-level bureaucrats has examined the various ways in which these professionals have implemented public policies in areas such as healthcare, education, and security, often emphasizing the role played by discretion in the implementation process. Despite its importance, the concept of street-level bureaucracy has scarcely been approached by housing studies. This study focuses on the role of street-level workers in the delivery of public housing to the lower-income population. We affirm the value of complementing street-level discretion with the concept of proximity, a premise borrowed from the microfinance literature, to increase the understanding of the interactions and relationships established between street-level workers and policy recipients during the implementation process. Such complementarity may contribute to a more accurate understanding of the housing policy implementation dynamics on the street-level and the possible adjustments to meet local needs. To explore this issue, we used a theoretical lens inspired by Goffman’s frame analysis that points to the importance of relational mechanisms that characterize the interactions between street-level workers and beneficiaries. These lenses were applied to a collective case study of Minha Casa Minha Vida-Entidades, a Brazilian subprogram in which street-level workers linked to social housing movements assume a leading role in the planning and execution of interventions. The results indicate that the combination of proximity and discretion has a positive influence on the implementation of housing policies. Our analysis shows the existence of nonprofit-oriented arrangements that may present different features and nuances at the implementation (micro) level and contribute to the (macro) debate on housing policies.

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Section: Literature Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Improving public housing policies that target low-income households: The value of adding proximity to discretion

Gonzalez

Lima-Silva

Pozzebon

2021

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…The forthcoming research examines the concept of mass housing as a supply-based strategy that seeks to close the quantitative housing deficits prevalent in emerging markets. There is an ongoing debate whether state-led residential construction should be characterized as heterodox, neoliberal or hybrid policies (Sengupta, 2019; Parsell et al , 2019; Chen, 2019; Gunter, 2013; Forrest and Hirayama, 2009; Rakodi, 1992). Fundamentally this debate reflect different viewpoints on whether housing is an economic good or social construct (Fahey and Norris, 2011).…”

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The Two Million Housing Drive in Korea

Feather¹

2019

IJHMA

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Purpose Emerging states confront staggering shortages in adequate housing stock. In response, governments have sought various supply-based solutions to mitigate growing housing deficits. While many of these mass housing efforts have not produced the desired outcome, the Republic of Korea’s Two Million Housing Drive (TMHD) was a comparatively successful intervention with its implementation from 1988 to 1992. The five-year initiative exceeded its objective with the construction of over 2.1 million units – of which two-thirds were built by the private sector. The purpose of this study is to analyse Korea’s relatively effective supply-based affordable housing approach and then extrapolate best practices and lessons learned with applications for real estate markets in the developing world. Comparative understanding of the TMHD can help promote greater access to adequate housing in the developing world, especially for the many who continue to live in impoverished conditions. Design/methodology/approach The research uses content-based and quantitative methods to analyze the case of the TMHD in Korea toward informing improvements in corresponding supply-based housing policies and programs in developing states. Findings While there were challenges with the TMHD, the program repositioned Korea’s urban housing market with greater access to affordable housing in cities for the lower-income and vulnerable. The TMHD enabled the subsequent effectiveness of demand-based housing policies. Research limitations/implications There are research limitations in fully understanding the complex relationships between mass housing programs, economic growth and government policies. The abductive reasoning used in this case study enables in-depth analysis of the TMHD with generalizable inferences for middle-range theories with applications for emerging markets. Practical implications The experience of the TMHD can promote policy harmonization by helping optimize corresponding mass housing efforts in the developing world with the potential to similarly close quantitative housing deficits and expand access to adequate housing for lower-income and vulnerable households. Social implications Deeper understanding of the TMHD can lead to reforms of other mass housing initiatives in emerging markets to make adequate housing more accessible and economical for the benefit of underserved segments of society. Originality/value The Korean experience with the TMHD can inform the optimization of other similar large-scale policies and programs seeking to sustainably overcome shortfalls in adequate housing that have become all too common in the developing world.

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Grabbing hand or helping hand? Ownership interventions and acquirers returns; the role of provincial idiosyncrasies

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Firm's performance is not only influenced by sound decisions but also by institutional processes. This study argues that the effect of government intervention on acquisition returns is partly dependent on institutional factors such as provincial marketization and the legal environment. This study employs ownership and merger and acquisition regulations issued by the Chinese government 2003–2018 to measure government intervention and also employs both the OLS and the random effects technique. The result shows a positive relationship between ownership intervention and acquisition returns. Next, the study finds that variances in regional marketization and the legal environment strengthen this relationship such that acquirers in high marketization regions and acquirers in a robust legal environment earn higher returns than acquirers in a low marketization region and acquirers in a weaker legal environment. The results imply that acquisition returns are not even across all locations in a transitional economy. Ongoing policies should aim at bridging the variances in different locations as it impacts acquirers' returns.

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State-led housing development in Brazil and India: a machinery for enabling strategy?

Cited by 15 publications

References 26 publications

Improving public housing policies that target low-income households: The value of adding proximity to discretion

Improving public housing policies that target low-income households: The value of adding proximity to discretion

The Two Million Housing Drive in Korea

Grabbing hand or helping hand? Ownership interventions and acquirers returns; the role of provincial idiosyncrasies

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