Katherine Gough
Professor
House for sale? The self-help housing market in Pereira, Colombia
Författare
Summary, in English
This paper aims to contribute to the discussion of the nature of the self-help housing market by analysing its extent and mode of operation in four self-help settlements in the intermediate sized city of Perdra, Colombia. The evidence from the survey settlements suggests that the market for self-help houses is small. Self-help settlements are dominated by a land market rather than by a housing market, although the distinction between the two is far from clear cut. Few self-help houses enter the property market because: many self-help households have no intention of selling their house after all the hard work that went into building it; it is difficult for households who wish to purchase dwellings in self-help settlements to raise the necessary finance; and the lack of title deeds is probably also a limiting factor.
Publiceringsår
1998-03
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
149-160
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Housing Studies
Volym
13
Avvikelse
2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Taylor & Francis
Ämne
- Human Geography
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0267-3037