Journal articles: 'Informal housin'

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Morais, Raquel Oliveira de, Bruna Lopes Brazão e. Silva, and José Júlio Ferreira Lima. "Forma urbana e segregação: uma análise morfológica dos assentamentos informais do entorno de conjuntos habitacionais em Ananindeua/Pará." QRU: Quaderns de Recerca en Urbanisme, no. 10 (January 2020): 64–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/qru.10390.

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Este trabalho se propõe a contribuir com uma análise morfológica dos assentamentos informais situados no entorno dos conjuntos habitacionais Cidade Nova, Guajará e PAAR, localizados no município de Ananindeua, Região Metropolitana de Belém, Estado do Pará. Foram escolhidos quatro assentamentos informais em virtude de suas respectivas localizações, relações de proximidade com os conjuntos habitacionais supracitados, forma espacial, suas conexões e limitações do sítio físico. Neles foram identificadas proporções de dimensões de quadras e lotes, massa edificada, e a relação entre o traçado da malha urbana dos assentamentos informais com as dos conjuntos habitacionais, visando identificar as transformações ocorridas e o nível integração/segregação dos recortes destacados. É demonstrado que a forma urbana dos assentamentos informais periféricos revela um processo de consolidação com padrões espaciais determinados em grande medida pela espacialidade dos conjuntos habitacionais. This work aims to contribute to a morphological analysis of informal settlements located around the Cidade Nova, Guajará and PAAR housing complexes, located in the municipality of Ananindeua, Metropolitan Region of Belém, state of Pará. Four informal settlements were chosen because of their respective locations, proximity relations with the above-mentioned housing estates, spatial shapes, their connections and limitations of the physical site. The assessment of proportions of blocks and lots, built mass, and the relationship between the layout of the urban network of informal settlements with the complexes housing are conducted, in order to identify the changes that have taken place and the level of integration/segregation of the highlighted areas. It is demonstrated that the urban form of peripheral informal settlements reveals a process of consolidation with spatial patterns partially determined by the spatiality of the housing estates.

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Guerreiro, Isadora de Andrade, Raquel Rolnik, and Adriana Marín-Toro. "Gestão neoliberal da precariedade: o aluguel residencial como nova fronteira de financeirização da moradia." Cadernos Metrópole 24, no. 54 (August 2022): 451–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2236-9996.2022-5401.

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Resumo A ascensão do aluguel como forma de acesso à moradia tem sido observada atualmente na América Latina, inserida em um contexto de inflexão neoliberal das políticas sociais, financeirização e mercantilização do território popular. Senhorios corporativos vinculados a gestores financeiros globais operam, no mercado residencial, através de plataformas digitais, concentrando a extração de renda de aluguel dispersa, com grande alcance e flexibilidade normativa. Já, no lucrativo mercado imobiliário popular, o aluguel informal é alimentado por remoções, despejos e uma nova geração de políticas públicas de moradia de aluguel: seja através de Parcerias Público-Privadas, seja com a introdução de vouchers, que articulam mercados residenciais populares informais às finanças, impactando territórios populares e redefinindo a moradia como serviço.

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Oteiza San José, Ignacio, Andrés Echeverría Villalobos, and Federico Arribas Zamora. "La producción informal de viviendas: caso Maracaibo, Venezuela." Informes de la Construcción 41, no. 403 (October 30, 1989): 17–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/ic.1989.v41.i403.1477.

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Shrestha, Pranita, Nicole Gurran, and Sophia Maalsen. "Informal housing practices." International Journal of Housing Policy 21, no. 2 (April 3, 2021): 157–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2021.1893982.

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Van Der Linden, Jan, Evert Meijer, and Peter Nientied. "Informal housing in Karachi." Habitat International 9, no. 3-4 (January 1985): 289–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0197-3975(85)90064-5.

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Rojas-Trejo, Marco, and Guillermo Villagrán-Caamaño. "Intervención pública en asentamientos informales. Nuevos escenarios, nuevos desafíos." Revista Urbano 26, no. 48 (November 30, 2023): 96–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.22320/07183607.2023.26.48.08.

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Informal urban settlements are part of the urban landscape in Latin America. To address this public policy problem, states have implemented diverse strategies that have transitioned between housing settlement and eradication, assuming that the former has significant advantages over the latter. The Chilean case is no different. To discuss these ideas, two Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning projects in the province of Concepción, Chile, are analyzed. The discussion is based on the results of a quantitative study, with a probabilistic design and simple random sampling, with a sample of 1,130 families. The results indicate that, regardless of the project’s operation strategy, families are highly satisfied with their homes. However, they express a negative evaluation of neighbors and a perception of heterogeneity, resulting in social distancing regarding social relations within the neighborhood space. The results open new questions regarding social integration in social housing complexes.

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Keigher, Sharon M. "Informal Supportive Housing for Elders:." Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect 3, no. 2 (June 18, 1991): 41–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j084v03n02_03.

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Alexander, Ernest R. "La vivienda "informal". La más avanzada tecnología en América latina: políticas para facilitar la construcción de alojamientos." Informes de la Construcción 39, no. 390 (August 30, 1987): 61–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/ic.1987.v39.i390.1640.

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Martone, Vittorio. "Abitare informale e regolazione violenta. Disagio abitativo e reti criminali ai margini della Capitale." Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali 11, no. 21 (November 30, 2021): 65–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/cambio-10842.

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Informal housing includes the range of practices associated with producing or occupying residential spaces which falls beyond formal systems of urban planning. In this field it is complicated recognize what is legal or illegal and informal self-building and social innovation coexist with urban crime. On the one hand, informal housing is an opportunity for counter-movements against marketisation of the housing sector (squatting, self-construction, grassroots neighbourhood organisations). On the other hand, in the informal housing we can find urban crime, including organised crime groups, which control over the territory, occupy public housing, and manage public housing building. Massive urban security policies tackled informal space through segregation, surveillance, and punitive initiatives. Here the accusation of “mafia” has intensity the criminalisation of urban poverty, and the complexity of socio-spatial inequality is confused under the penal repression. The essay tries to deepen this ambivalence by looking at the outskirts of Rome and, in particular, at the relationship between informal housing in neighbourhoods with public housing complexes, with a high concentration of socio-economic disadvantage and high criminal density.

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Qian, Zhu. "From upstart city to ‘ghost’ city: informal housing finance in Ordos, China." Town Planning Review: Volume ahead-of-print ahead-of-print (August 1, 2020): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2021.2.

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This paper applies the perspective of informality to examine the nexus between informal housing finance and housing markets in China. The study explores the causes, formation, influences and consequences of informal housing financing mechanisms in Ordos. It argues that informal housing finance contributes to the local property market boom and becomes an instrument of wealth building through homeownership, but classifies and reinforces social classes based on their gains from the property market. The study discusses the possibilities of institutionalizing informal housing finance and diversifying economic structures, with special consideration of resource-based frontier cities.

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Keene, Danya E., Penelope Schlesinger, Shannon Carter, Amila Kapetanovic, Alana Rosenberg, and Kim M. Blankenship. "Filling the Gaps in an Inadequate Housing Safety Net: The Experiences of Informal Housing Providers and Implications for Their Housing Security, Health, and Well-Being." Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 8 (January 2022): 237802312211152. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23780231221115283.

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The authors examine the experiences of informal housing providers, defined as those who provide housing and shelter to family, friends, and acquaintances in the context of a severe affordable rental housing crisis. Forty-five semistructured interviews were conducted with informal housing providers in and around New Haven, Connecticut, in 2021. The data describe the critical role informal housing providers play in addressing gaps in the housing safety net. Interviews also show the ways informal housing provision can strain already vulnerable households and threaten providers’ own housing security, with implications for their health and well-being. As such, the data illustrate how widespread unmet housing needs can reverberate across networks and communities. Given the multiple ways structural racism has constrained housing access for nonwhite Americans, this burden of housing provision is also likely to be unequal, with implications for population health equity.

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Akcabozan, Aylin, and Yüksel Demir. "A Comparative Parametric Evaluation of Informal and Formal Housing: Maltepe/Istanbul Case Study." Architecture and Urban Planning 10, no. 1 (December 1, 2015): 21–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aup-2015-0003.

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Abstract The intention of this paper is to provide a comparative parametric approach that to analyze informal housing patterns and to develop alternative housing paradigms by designing new formal housing patterns in Istanbul. This paper focuses on parameters which are effective in the formation of “informal housing settlements” considering the formal housing production alternatives. Observation, actual sources and parametric evaluation was used. This study aims to make comparison between organic informal housing structure and formal housing structure in Maltepe/ Istanbul housing settlement and analyse their physical and spatial patterns by using parametric evaluation approach.

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Hasgül, Esin. "Incremental housing: A participation process solution for informal housing." A/Z : ITU journal of Faculty of Architecture 13, no. 1 (2016): 15–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5505/itujfa.2016.08370.

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Yakubu, Adamu, Sunday Etemini Emankhu, and Siddhartha Sen. "The Factors influencing the formation and persistence of Informal Housing in Lafia." International Journal of Civil Engineering, Construction and Estate Management 12, no. 1 (January 15, 2024): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.37745/ijcecem.14/vol12n1118.

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This study delves into the complex issue of informal housing in Lafia, Nigeria, a city experiencing rapid urbanization. It investigates the factors influencing the formation and persistence of informal housing, drawing on demographic insights and extensive data collection. Key findings highlight the role of land tenure challenges, rapid urbanization, ineffective housing policies, and affordability issues in driving informal settlements. The study emphasizes the need for collaborative partnerships, policy reforms, community engagement, and affordable housing initiatives to address these challenges. By fostering transparency, land tenure security, and education, sustainable urban development in Lafia can be achieved. This research contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of informal housing challenges and informs evidence-based policy recommendations and interventions.

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Mwau, Baraka, and Alice Sverdlik. "High rises and low-quality shelter: rental housing dynamics in Mathare Valley, Nairobi." Environment and Urbanization 32, no. 2 (July 30, 2020): 481–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956247820942166.

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Informal rental housing remains a hidden – yet central – pillar of low-cost shelter markets across the global South. The large informal settlement of Mathare Valley illustrates Nairobi’s rapidly changing informal rental housing markets, with the ongoing rise of tenements alongside metal shacks. Informal single-room rental units (shacks and tenements) already house most Nairobi residents in low-quality but highly profitable shelter. This case study describes how multiple exclusions can shape access to rental housing and examines the politics of shelter delivery. We underscore the importance of private rental markets and offer recommendations for inclusive, multi-pronged interventions combining support for rental housing, land governance and infrastructure delivery. Through a better understanding of the myriad actors and dynamics of informal rental housing, it may be possible to develop strategies that serve low-income tenants for whom renting is often the only viable option.

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Liu, Yunying. "The Status and Development of Informal Housing in Guangzhou Urban Villages." Advances in Economic Development and Management Research 1, no. 2 (April 18, 2024): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.61935/aedmr.2.1.2024.p24.

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Amid rapid urbanization, the housing market must be more robust to provide housing for vulnerable groups. In China, informal housing, represented by urban villages, provides a large amount of living space and alleviates the emergence of urban poverty and slums. However, due to the social and environmental problems of urban villages, there are certain contradictions with the sustainable development of cities. This paper takes Guangzhou as an example, looking at the trajectory and underlying mechanisms of informal housing growth in urban villages utilizing field surveys and questionnaire interviews. The study extracts the current housing conditions and development concerns in urban villages and tries to unearth the economic and social issues behind urbanization. In addition, this study discusses the inclusive development strategy of informal housing in urban villages from three aspects: the improvement of affordable housing, the protection of migrant populations' rights and interests, and the renovation and renewal of urban, which offer insight into managing informal housing and supporting sustainable development in developing countries.

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Mustafa, Mehreen. "THE INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS OF LAHORE: UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF INFORMAL KATCHI ABADI IN THE CONTEXT OFAFFORDABLE HOUSING." Journal of Research in Architecture and Planning 26, no. 1 (June 30, 2019): 38–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.53700/jrap2612019_4.

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The city of Lahore is expanding at great pace in terms of its urban sprawl and demographics. The consequence of rural to urban migrations, as of arbitrary physical and social development in the city has triggered the process of urbanization at a rate which was never recorded before. Urban housing in this context is the most complex, in demand and unattended phenomena. The lack of efforts in bridging the gap between the demand and supply chain of urban housing in Lahore is promoting a culture of social and spatial inequity, and has produced a form of urban housing for the economically marginalized communities i.e. the Katchi Abadis. In order to explore the above mentioned issues, a research project was initiated with the aim to understand the complexities of Katchi Abadis in Lahore, through the study of their existing realities, by employing tools of community based participatory methodology. Based on the project conducted, the objective of the research paper was to explore Katchi Abadis as a form of affordable urban housing developed by the marginalized communities with limited resources and without financial or legal assistant of concerned authorities. The paper analyses the internal social and spatial politics of Katchi Abadis and their impact on the context and vice versa. The paper is aimed at highlighting the phenomenon of Katchi Abadis as an existing urban phenomena (neglected and segregated) which should be understood, in order to effectively cater to the growing housing demand in the city of Lahore. Keywords: Katchi Abadi, informal settlement, urban housing, marginalized community, urbanization, affordable housing, and community based participatory approach, Lahore.

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Jones, Paul. "Housing Resilience and the Informal City." Journal of Regional and City Planning 28, no. 2 (August 24, 2017): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.5614/jrcp.2017.28.2.4.

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Durst, Noah J., and Jake Wegmann. "Informal Housing in the United States." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 41, no. 2 (March 2017): 282–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12444.

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Dekel, Tomer. "The institutional perspective on informal housing." Habitat International 106 (December 2020): 102287. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2020.102287.

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Sastrosasmita, Sudaryono, and A. T. M. Nurul Amin. "Housing needs of informal sector workers." Habitat International 14, no. 4 (January 1990): 75–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0197-3975(90)90006-m.

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Mahadevia, Darshini, Minal Pathak, Neha Bhatia, and Shaurya Patel. "Climate Change, Heat Waves and Thermal Comfort—Reflections on Housing Policy in India." Environment and Urbanization ASIA 11, no. 1 (March 2020): 29–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0975425320906249.

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Housing ideally supplies many physical comforts, social and economic benefits, as well as forms the basis for the right to the city. It also addresses an additional challenge of adaptation to the current as well as expected impacts of climate change—one of them being heat waves—especially in the context of developing countries like India. Few studies in the Indian context have explicitly examined the experience of heat on the indoor temperatures linked to the housing quality and typologies and the quality of the surroundings. Official state and urban policies do not explicitly include heatproofing for existing or new housing to address indoor heat exposure, especially in the case of vulnerable populations. We have measured the indoor and outdoor temperatures in 860 low-income residents living in three different housing typologies in 26 settlements (formal and informal) of Ahmedabad, India, in peak summer months. Building the case for a long-term urban housing strategy to address the impact of indoor temperature particularly for low-income households and residents of informal housing, we argue that conscious and deliberate efforts towards heatproofing existing informal housing are required. One of the options, which is being pursued currently, is transiting informal housing dwellers to formal housing. But, another one for immediate consideration is renewal of current informal housing due to limited coverage possibility of the first option.

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Wijayaningtyas, Maranatha, and Kukuh Lukiyanto. "Informal housing construction workers’ perceptions toward the improvement of effective leadership and performance." MATEC Web of Conferences 258 (2019): 02004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201925802004.

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Practically, as other construction projects, the workforce in housing construction projects is still dominated by informal workers who belong to a group and controlled by a leader. Accordingly, developer companies consider that informal worker leaders play an important role in improving the informal workers’ performance in housing construction projects. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore the effective leadership style that can improve the performance of informal workers in housing construction projects based on the workers’ perceptions. The implications of this research can be used to improve the informal workers’ performance both of national and multinational developer companies so they can perform more effectively in completing housing construction projects. The research used qualitative method with phenomenological approach to reveal an assessment based on perceptions and perspectives of informal construction workers. Finally, it was found that the effective leadership style according to the informal workers’ perceptions is the transactional leadership which includes being liked by the workers, concerning and appreciating, as well as being consistent with commitments. Thus, effective performance and leadership will be achieved as informal construction workers will work hard under this leadership style.

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Peng, Xi. "Report of Informal Housing Policy in India." Journal of Finance Research 2, no. 3 (November 8, 2018): 108. http://dx.doi.org/10.26549/jfr.v2i3.1177.

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Informal housing can be broadly defined into two types: first, those in which occupants illegally occupy a certain area of a residential location and build a dwelling on the land; second, housing or residential areas which do not meet the master plan or building regulations. This report describes and evaluates the informal housing policies in India, introducing the improvement of the living standards brought on by these policies to the low-income residents of Chennai, while the case of Kannagi Nagar will be used to analyse the adverse effects of said policies.

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Castelhano, Pedro Jablinski, Maíra Mesquita Maciorowski, and Elisa de Oliveira Beck. "State’s action in the production of the informal city: a spatial analysis in Florianópolis." Cadernos Metrópole 26, no. 59 (January 2024): 255–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2236-9996.2024-5912.e.

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Abstract The thesis that the Brazilian state tolerates and encourages urban squatting as a response to its own inability to provide popular housing and to guarantee jobs that enable the acquisition of housing in the real estate market is tested in this article through the case study of Florianópolis. We studied irregularity and two indications of municipal action in its consolidation in Florianópolis: implementation of community facilities and issuance of construction permits. We found that construction permits are limited only by registration restrictions, not by the existence or not of land ownership, and that the municipality works actively in the production of health, education, and transport facilities, but not of leisure facilities in these areas.

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Andreasen, Manja Hoppe, Gordon McGranahan, Alphonce Kyessi, and Wilbard Kombe. "Informal land investments and wealth accumulation in the context of regularization: case studies from Dar es Salaam and Mwanza." Environment and Urbanization 32, no. 1 (January 29, 2020): 89–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956247819896265.

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Between half and three-quarters of new housing development in African cities has been taking place on land acquired through informal channels. This paper offers insights from a study of self-builders’ investments in informal land and housing in Dar es Salaam and Mwanza, two of the largest and fastest-growing cities in Tanzania. The findings demonstrate that self-builders’ investments in informal land and self-built housing are inextricably linked with household wealth accumulation processes and long-term security. In light of the research findings, the paper offers reflections on the potential impacts of ongoing land formalization processes. The paper argues that the informal housing system has far more advantages than appreciated by proponents of formalization, that the vision of bringing “dead capital” to life is misleading, and that the anticipated emergence of active formal markets for land and housing may not serve the needs or interests of low- and middle-income households.

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de Teresa, Ignacio, Enrique Mora-Alvarado, and Filiberto Viteri-Chávez. "El sistema social de la casa. En la vivienda informal consolidada de Guayaquil." Arquitecturas del Sur 38, no. 59 (January 30, 2021): 68–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.22320/07196466.2021.39.059.04.

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The post-pandemic crisis of contemporary housing, triggered by COVID-19, only but extends, to the entire world, many of the questions in which, permanently, housing is immersed within, in an ongoing crisis of developing countries. How to make houses more shareable, flexible, transformable, productive, participatory, livable, etc.? In that sense, by studying low-income housing in these countries, it is possible to analyze alternatives to the current dwellings, that arise from informality as a response to those questions shared worldwide today. This article describes part of a research carried out at Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, which analyzes the physical and social transformations in consolidated informal dwellings within the city center. The techniques used, include planimetric surveys of case studies, interviews to users, and mapping out the use of the dwellings throughout the day. The analysis focuses on the interaction exerted between several nuclear families inside the dwelling and their objects. Thus describing a habitat transformational and production system linked to objects, where the dwelling is understood as a social system of objects and people, in continuous interaction and transformation.

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Sharipova, Dina. "Who Gets What, When and How? Housing and Informal Institutions in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Kazakhstan." Central Asian Affairs 2, no. 2 (March 13, 2015): 140–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22142290-00202002.

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Informal reciprocal exchanges continue to shape people’s interactions in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. State retrenchment from the social sphere and growing inequality has markedly limited citizens’, access to scarce resources including housing. This has stimulated people’s involvement in informal exchanges. The article analyzes housing policy during the Soviet and post-Soviet periods taking a closer look at the process of housing allocation. It claims that despite formalization of housing distribution, citizens continue using informal networks to gain access to that scarce commodity in the post-Soviet period. The article draws on data collected from interviews, textual analysis, and original surveys conducted in Kazakhstan in 2011 and 2013.

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Polyzos, Serafeim, and Dionysios Minetos. "Informal Housing in Greece: A Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis at the Regional Level." European Spatial Research and Policy 20, no. 2 (January 22, 2014): 57–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/esrp-2013-0011.

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This paper deals with the primary causes of informal housing in Greece as well as the observed differentiations in informal housing patterns across space. The spatial level of analysis is the prefectural administrative level. The results of the multinomial logistic regression analysis indicate that Greek prefectures differ in the way they experience the informal housing phenomenon. An explanation for the observed differences may be the separate development paths followed and the diverse range of economic activities in each prefecture. The Greek state has not made provisions for creating the necessary ‘urban land stock’ in each prefecture, so that everyone interested can find land parcels at an affordable price. On the contrary, the state encourages the informal housing activity by legalizing large areas of such activity sporadically and by introducing legislative initiatives of limited success in dealing with the problem.

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Kahachi, Hussaen Ali Hasan, and Alison Brown. "Low-income housing provision: between governmental interventions and informal settlements." Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning 19, no. 2 (February 6, 2021): 39–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.36041/iqjap.v19i2.522.

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Low-cost housing, so-called affordable housing, is an important subject as it affects many aspects of people's well-being and city planning. The urban poor, who form a respectable percentage of cities' residents in many developing countries, are the most affected segment by the availability and affordability of housing. Governments often try their best to provide affordable housing through housing interventions and programs. However, many low-income people end up in informal settlements including slums and squatter settlements. This research analyzes state-led low-cost housing initiatives compared to informal affordable housing in developing countries. The importance of this research is mainly associated with understanding how governmental housing initiatives and laws affect the housing preferences of the urban poor. The research starts by providing a brief background about the subject and its importance from the literature. The research uses mixed methods approach and a case study of Greater Cairo Region following the massive migration during the period between the 1980s and the 2000s to provide an in-depth understanding of the situation. The research then analyzes/discusses some housing initiatives, and uses both quantitative/qualitative data in order to explain potential malpractice and issues. Finally, the research will highlight the key findings and provide some recommendations for change/improvement.

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Galuszka, Jakub. "BOATS AS HOUSING IN OXFORD, UK: Trajectories of Informality in a High‐Income Context." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 48, no. 1 (January 2024): 126–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13221.

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AbstractIn 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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Recio, Redento B., and Tanzil Shafique. "Reimagining (informal) housing futures in uncertain times." International Journal of Housing Policy 22, no. 1 (January 2, 2022): 106–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2021.2019883.

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Bilgrami, Nighat. "Pattern of Informal Housing Finance in Pakistan." Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics 40, no. 1 (March 1, 1998): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.21648/arthavij/1998/v40/i1/115931.

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Posada, Héctor M. "Informal housing, spatial structure, and city compactness." Journal of Regional Science 58, no. 4 (April 20, 2018): 822–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jors.12387.

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Wegmann, Jake, and Sarah Mawhorter. "Measuring Informal Housing Production in California Cities." Journal of the American Planning Association 83, no. 2 (April 3, 2017): 119–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2017.1288162.

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Liu, Ran. "Incomplete Urbanization and the Trans-Local Rural-Urban Gradient in China: From a Perspective of New Economics of Labor Migration." Land 11, no. 2 (February 13, 2022): 282. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11020282.

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The urbanization in China is “incomplete” and the migration of non-hukou migrants is circular, wherein rural migrants often keep their rural land in the home village as a social safety net. The informal housing market is one of the main housing providers for migrant workers. Existing studies see informal housing as the migrants’ passive choice under the discriminatory hukou system, while underplaying the migrants’ familial multi-site tenure strategies between village homes and city places. As suggested by New Economics of Labor Migration (NELM), attachment to a place of origin (such as keeping hometown lands), while choosing informal housing at the destination, is a familial utility maximization strategy that can control risks when migrating between locations. Informal housing areas, therefore, become a trans-local rural-urban gradient and semi-urban landscape. We use the 2017 Migrant Dynamics Monitoring Survey data and the binary logistic regression to examine (a) whether hometown landowning is a significant predictor of the migrants’ choosing of a temporary stay in informal settlements in urban destinations, and (b) which kind of hometown land arrangement (farmland or homestead holding or both of them) is the strongest indicator of the higher probability of staying in informal settlements in urban destinations? The data analysis reveals that homestead in hometown is a more prominent pulling factor than farmland to “glue” rural migrants together within an integrated rural land “insurance regime” between the migrant-sending and -receiving places. The land-use and informal housing governance (including urban village demolition) ignore the trans-local nature of the migratory networks and semi-urbanizing dynamics. The traditional analysis of the rural-urban gradient with many landscapes should consider the functional and tenurial linkage between the locations at different points along with the complex migration activities.

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Goldwyn, Briar, Amy Javernick-Will, and Abbie B. Liel. "Multi-Hazard Housing Safety Perceptions of Those Involved with Housing Construction in Puerto Rico." Sustainability 14, no. 7 (March 23, 2022): 3802. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14073802.

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Globally, hazards are increasingly threatening housing each year, and housing constructed outside the formal sector may be particularly vulnerable. Yet, limited studies have investigated the perceptions of those responsible for designing and building this housing. These safety perceptions motivate the informal housing construction practices that ultimately determine housing safety. Thus, this study investigates the multi-hazard housing safety perceptions of individuals involved with housing construction in Puerto Rico. We surveyed 345 builders and hardware store employees across Puerto Rico to understand their perceptions of expected housing damage in hurricanes and earthquakes, important mitigation measures, and barriers to safer housing construction. Our results reveal that prior hazard experience did not influence perceptions of expected housing damage, but previous housing construction experience did. Respondents viewed wood and concrete housing as less safe in hurricanes and earthquakes, respectively. Yet, respondents appeared uncertain about the importance of mitigation measures for concrete houses in earthquakes, likely due to a combination of limited earthquake experience and “hidden” reinforcement detailing in a reinforced concrete house. Interestingly, our results also show that respondents perceive technical construction capacity as a major barrier to safer informal housing construction rather than resource constraints alone. These findings suggest areas for technical construction capacity development for Puerto Rico’s informal construction sector.

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Uyi, Ezeanah, and Hassan Y. Tifwa. "The Role of Inclusionary Hybrid Governance in Housing Delivery in Jos." African Journal of Environmental Sciences and Renewable Energy 14, no. 1 (March 31, 2024): 46–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.62154/e3rtpe05.

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Housing is a critical element of socioeconomic welfare, significantly influencing life quality and community interactions. In cities like Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, the provision of housing is fraught with challenges due to the complex interaction between formal and informal governance structures. This study investigates the effects of hybrid governance on housing allocation in Jos, aiming to elucidate the intricate connections between governance models and housing distribution methods. An analysis of the formal and informal institutions that oversee land ownership and housing rules reveals that the divergent practices of these systems impede efficient housing provision, resulting in conflicts, poor living conditions, and restricted access to vital services. The study proposes a hybrid governance model that integrates formal regulatory agencies and informal community representatives to address these challenges. Encouraging cooperation and coordination among these groups can enable urban planners to promote the development of quality, affordable housing, thus alleviating the housing shortage and enhancing the city's habitability. This research offers significant insights for policymakers, urban planners, and housing policy stakeholders in Jos and similar settings, emphasising the necessity of inclusive governance strategies to achieve sustainable housing solutions.

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Hossain, Md Shahriar, and Jesmin Sultana. "Assessment of Physical Standards of Housing for Healthy Living in Urban Informal Settlement: A Case of Rupsha Slum in Khulna." Journal of Engineering Science 13, no. 2 (January 15, 2023): 51–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jes.v13i2.63726.

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Overcrowding, poor structural quality of housing, and a lack of basic services and infrastructure differentiate informal settlement as a distinct type of community. Poor housing quality is directly connected to a greater risk of disease and illness in informal settlements. This research is being carried out to provide a comprehensive picture of the existing physical conditions of housing and aims to measure the deviation of housing quality between existing and standard healthy housing parameters in informal settlements. A substantial amount of fieldwork has been conducted to map the existing physical structure of the settlement and a list of preventable diseases suffered from poor housing is made through conducting a focus group discussion and interviews of 50 households in a distinct informal settlement situated in Bangladesh’s third-largest city, namely Khulna. To assess the housing quality a framework of standard housing is made by reviewing the book “Park’s textbook of preventive and social medicine” by K. Park. Results indicate that - 70% of the total household does not satisfy the minimum housing standard; in most cases, 4 or 5 persons must share a single room of 102 to 150 sqft area; a single toilet serves 180 people; the queuing time for drinking water from a tube well exceeds 45 minutes. The study also reveals the settler’s complex mechanism of compact living through space sharing dynamics. Journal of Engineering Science 13(2), 2022, 51-67

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Gunter, Ashley, and Ruth Massey. "Renting Shacks: Tenancy in the informal housing sector of the Gauteng Province, South Africa." Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series 37, no. 37 (September 26, 2017): 25–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bog-2017-0022.

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AbstractInformal settlements are where a significant proportion of urban population find shelter in the cities of the Global South. In some cities, this settlement type is the norm and urban residence are forced into these areas due to a lack of formal housing capacity. Housing tenure in the informal sector is tenuous and the most vulnerable of this group are those who find rental housing in the sector. The idea of a slumlord within this context is one of exploitation and abuse, this study explores the slumlord tenant relationship within informal settlements in Gauteng, South Africa. The study found that there is a symbiotic relationship between landlords and tenants where the informal economy fills a gap in the low income market. While there are issues of exploitation within the informal rental market, this large, unregulated and growing sector points to a significant need for more low cost housing within the formal sector.

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Ahmed, Sk Kabir, and Md Nur-Mohammad Khan. "Up-gradation of Informal settlement: A Review of Comparative Evidence of Khulna and Kathmandu." Asian Journal of Applied Science and Engineering 9, no. 1 (May 26, 2020): 87–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.18034/ajase.v9i1.32.

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The urban population of developing countries is increasing at an alarming rate. As a consequence, an alarming feature of this trend is an explosion of informal housing development especially in cities of developing countries. In recent times, a great deal of significance has been come forwarded to the informal housing sector. The general features of informal housing are insecurity of tenure, low standard of infrastructure and services. Housing with high standards and job absence within their catchments areas have played a vital role regarding shifting ownership to the middle-income group. The total study was composed of four major phases. In the first phase theories and policy context, adaptive up-gradation by people was studied covering international context, regional context, and local context, and the second phase-field study was conducted on informal settlements of Khulna city, Rupsha Char Slum. This phase was focused on gathering information about the existing socio-economic context and physical condition, building process indigenous adaptive measures, up-gradation scopes of the settlements. Data were collected by observing and interviewing the community and physical mapping by the residents. In the third phase information was collected under the same criteria and by the same process, which was followed in Khulna, from an informal settlement in Kathmandu, Nepal called Pathivara squatter. Lastly, in this study, a realistic and feasible policy guideline was given based on the learning from the field research and studies on theories and policy context and also informal housing practice, outlook and approach in developing countries and their changing patterns towards this sector has been deliberated.

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Sanderson, Kelli A., Meghan M. Burke, Richard C. Urbano, Catherine K. Arnold, and Robert M. Hodapp. "Who Helps? Characteristics and Correlates of Informal Supporters to Adults With Disabilities." American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 122, no. 6 (November 1, 2017): 492–510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1352/1944-7558-122.6.492.

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Abstract This study examined who provides informal (or unpaid) supports to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Participants included 657 adult siblings of people with disabilities who responded to a national survey about informal supports in the areas of recreation, employment, and housing. Results indicated that most people with IDD received informal supports, with parents and sibling respondents most often providing those supports. Support was most commonly received in recreation, as opposed to housing or employment. Asked to list nonfamily informal supporters, respondents often mentioned paid staff and disability organizations. Correlates of total numbers of informal supporters included the individual with disability's functioning level and parents' ability to care for their offspring with disabilities.

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Glenn, Jane Matthews. "Informal formality: tenantries, ejidos and family land." International Journal of Law in Context 4, no. 2 (June 2008): 135–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744552308002036.

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AbstractFormality and informality in housing is a continuum, rather than an either/or proposition, with many examples along the continuum. This paper focuses on three examples of housing solutions – Barbados tenantries, Mexican ejidos and Saint Lucia family land – which are situated at the fulcrum of the continuum, at the point where it tips from formality to informality, and attempts to unravel their formal and informal elements. While the starting hypothesis was that each is informal from a public law point of view but formal from a private law one, closer examination suggests that their private law aspects are more nuanced than first appeared.

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Ren, Xuefei. "Governing the Informal: Housing Policies Over Informal Settlements in China, India, and Brazil." Housing Policy Debate 28, no. 1 (March 2017): 79–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2016.1247105.

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Samuel, Aribilosho Lucky Osayeshe. "Problems Associated with Informal Settlements in a Planned Neighborhood; A Study of Eagle Island of Port Harcourt, Rivers State Nigeria." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 9, no. 11 (November 30, 2021): 736–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2021.38857.

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Abstract: This study examined the problems associated with informal settlements in a planned neighborhood, using Eagle Island Port Harcourt, Rivers State as a study area. To achieve the objectives of this study, a detailed literature was reviewed on informal settlement. The study adopted survey research design as 120 structured questionnaires were designed and administered, eventually, 100 valid responses collected formed the data for analysis. The obtained data came from Eagle Island residents, officials of ministries of lands, Urban Development and Lecturers of Urban and Regional Planning in Rivers State University. In the course of the study it was discovered that the nature and conditions of existed informal settlements were identified as natural ageing of the building, poor sanitation within the vicinity, and poor health condition of the residents. The major associated problems of informal settlements as exposed by the study included increase in illness, forceful eviction, overcrowding, lack of privacy, low quality houses and uncontrolled development, marginality generation and exclusion of the vulnerable, structures demolition without prior notice and without adequate compensation. This study was restricted to Eagle Island Neighborhood, Port Harcourt, Rivers State and the selection of Eagle Island was mainly influenced by accessibility of the researcher and the recent forceful eviction and demolition of structures by the Rivers State Government, consequently the findings of this research will be taken as a representative for the entire country. The study provides detailed comprehensive propoor strategies which will contribute to the integration of informal settlements into a planned neighborhood to include poverty reduction strategies, site and services housing schemes, land regularization, provision of array basic facilities, comprehensive housing schemes and provision of public rental housing alongside the planned development. The study thus recommended that low income housing alongside comprehensive housing scheme should be provided. Similarly there should be provision of low cost public rental housing, provision of interventions in the housing sector among others. Keywords: Informal Settlements, Planned neighborhood, Eagle Island

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Tamuka Moyo, Hazvinei Tsitsi, Mark Zuidgeest, and Hedwig van Delden. "Lessons Learned from Applying an Integrated Land Use Transport Planning Model to Address Issues of Social and Economic Exclusion of Marginalised Groups: The Case of Cape Town, South Africa." Urban Science 5, no. 1 (January 18, 2021): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/urbansci5010010.

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The Group Areas Act of 1950 has resulted in post-apartheid South African cities being characterised by spatial patterns with limited access to social and economic opportunities for the black and coloured population. Typically, high-density low-income housing is located peripherally, while low density high-income housing is located in accessible central areas. With increased rural-to-urban migration, the demand for formal housing has historically surpassed supply, which has increased the growth of informal settlements. Current discourse within South African land use policy suggests that in-situ upgrading of informal housing is a viable response to integrate informal settlements into the formal city. In parallel, it is proposed that new low-income residential areas and employment-generating land uses should be located along transport corridors to improve access to transport, its infrastructure and the opportunities it provides for previously marginalised groups. This study uses Cape Town as a case city to explore two land-use driven development strategies directed at informal settlements and low-income housing. A dynamic land use transport model based on a cellular automata land use model and a four-stage transport model was used to simulate land use and transport changes. Specifically, in-situ upgrading of informal settlements and strategically locating new low-income residential and employment generating land uses along transport corridors were considered. The results from the analysis suggest that in-situ upgrading is a viable option only if new informal settlements are in areas with easy access to economic centres. With regards to low-income housing, targeted interventions aimed at ‘unlocking’ low-income housing activities along transport corridors were found to be useful. However, it was also observed that middle-income residential development and employment generating activities were also attracted to the same corridors, thus, resulting in mixed land uses, which is beneficial but can potentially result in rental bids between low and middle-income earners thus displacing low-income earners away from these areas.

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Al-Hinkawi, Wahda Shukur, Safaa Aldeen Ali, and Anwar Subhi Al-Qaraghuli. "The designed housing projects as an alternative for the informal building and their impact in addressing the heterogeneity of the urban escape in the built residential areas." Journal of Engineering 18, no. 09 (July 21, 2023): 160–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.31026/j.eng.2012.09.08.

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The phenomenon of informal building Spread recently in Iraqi residential areas, in general, and in Baghdad, in particular, due to the urgent housing need, on the one hand, and lack of commitment to building controls, on the other hand, to highlight the phenomenon of uncommitted building to controls and housing governing legislation in Iraq, leading to heterogeneity in both building densities and plot areas, and disorder in the urban fabric and urban escape of those areas. Research problem identified as the absence of a clear vision about the General aspects of the phenomenon of informal building in residential street scene, and the role of designed housing projects as a substitute for informal building in built residential areas. The designed housing projects (single or multi story buildings), which designed and constructed accordance to the approved planning and construction regulations and legislation, as one of the solution to the housing crisis, that achieve the harmonious at each level of the urban fabric and urban escape. Accordingly the research hypothesis stated as "the designed housing projects achieve homogeneous formal unity in residential street scene". This paper deals with the role of designed residential projects to reduce the phenomenon of informal building and heterogeneity in the urban escape of built residential areas, by identifying the phenomenon in residential areas, in general, and in selected area in Baghdad, in particular, first, and present a designed housing projects ( global and local) that achieve homogeneous formal unity at the level of the urban escape, second, the research identified the principles and the elements of the residential street scene and the organization bases that can be a substitute for the informal building and the heterogeneity of the urban escape in built residential areas, third.

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Opoko, Akunnaya Pearl, Adedapo Adewunmi Oluwatayo, Bayo Amole, and Ekundayo Adeyemi. "How different actors shape the real estate market for informal settlements in Lagos." Environment and Urbanization 32, no. 2 (May 25, 2020): 371–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956247820917882.

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The literature indicates that most housing in the urban areas of many countries in the global South is in informal settlements, provided through informal mechanisms that are often not well understood. This paper contributes to understanding the forces influencing real estate markets in informal settlements, drawing on a case study of the under-researched Ayobo community in Lagos, Nigeria. The paper examines the roles played by government agencies and other market actors, including buyers, sellers, informants, financiers and witnesses, in relation to the operation and regulation of informal land markets. The analysis of the data, drawn from a survey and interviews, reveals a thriving property market, which is socially if not formally regulated. The paper concludes that this flourishing informal market needs strengthening to effectively meet the housing needs of urban residents.

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Elidor, Hélène, Ali Ben Charif, Codjo Djignefa Djade, Rhéda Adekpedjou, and France Légaré. "Decision Regret among Informal Caregivers Making Housing Decisions for Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment: A Cross-sectional Analysis." Medical Decision Making 40, no. 4 (May 2020): 416–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0272989x20925368.

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Background. Informal caregivers are regularly faced with difficult housing decisions for older adults with cognitive impairment. They often regret the decision they made. We aimed to identify factors associated with decision regret among informal caregivers engaging in housing decisions for cognitively impaired older adults. Methods. We performed a secondary analysis of cross-sectional data collected from a cluster-randomized trial. Eligible participants were informal caregivers involved in making housing decisions for cognitively impaired older adults. Decision regret was assessed after caregivers’ enrollment in the study using the Decision Regret Scale (DRS), scored from 0 to 100. We used a conceptual framework of potential predictors of regret to identify independent variables. We performed multilevel analyses using a mixed linear model by estimating fixed effects (β) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Results. The mean (SD) DRS score of 296 informal caregivers (mean [SD] age, 62 [12] years) was 12.4 (18.4). Factors associated with less decision regret were having a college degree compared to primary education (β [95% CI]: –11.14 [–18.36, –3.92]), being married compared to being single (–5.60 [–10.05, –1.15]), informal caregivers’ perception that a joint process occurred (–0.14 [–0.25, –0.02]), and older adults’ not having a specific housing preference compared to preferring to stay at home (–4.13 [–7.40, –0.86]). Factors associated with more decision regret were being retired compared to being a homemaker (7.74 [1.32, 14.16]), higher burden of care (0.14 [0.05, 0.22]), and higher decisional conflict (0.51 [0.34, 0.67]). Limitations. Our analysis may not illustrate all predictors of decision regret among informal caregivers. Conclusions. Our findings will allow risk-mitigation strategies for informal caregivers at risk of experiencing regret.

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Presswood, Rebecca, H. L. Thadani, Y. I. Go, Sheida Afshan, and A. K. Rweyora. "Construction and energy aspects of affordable housing developments for formal settlements." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Design and Planning 174, no. 4 (November 2021): 173–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/jurdp.21.00025.

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Nearly one-quarter of the world's urban population lives in informal settlements or encampments, most in developing countries but increasingly also in the most affluent countries. Many residents live in overcrowded, insecure dwellings, without water and sanitation, fearful of eviction and subject to preventable life-threatening illnesses. UN Sustainable Development Goal 11: ‘Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’ is committed to ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and upgrade slums by 2030. There is therefore an urgent need for more affordable and permanent housing to be developed. This paper presents a review of the construction and energy aspects of affordable housing developments for informal settlement dwellers. The conditions of existing informal settlements in Global South countries have been researched and various case studies of informal settlement upgrading programmes are presented. The potentials of solar energy technologies in development of green affordable houses in case study countries Uganda and Indonesia are assessed.

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