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Porträttfoto Katherine Gough

Katherine Gough

Professor

Porträttfoto Katherine Gough

Affording a home : The strategies of self-help builders in Colombia

Författare

  • Katherine V. Gough

Redaktör

  • Kavita Datta
  • Gareth Jones

Summary, in English

It is now widely accepted that the vast majority of inhabitants of cities in developing countries have to be involved in the construction of their houses if they are to become home-owners. During the construction process, most households will make payments for land, construction materials and skilled labour. This chapter analyses the different ways in which households finance these payments and focuses on attempts by self-help builders, by community-based initiatives and by various governmental and non-governmental organizations, to reduce the cost of constructing a home. The chapter argues that housing strategies vary according to a household’s resources and networks, and that the housing process itself offers implicit opportunities for maintaining financial control. 1 The final section indicates how most community and institutional-level strategies encounter difficulties as they are inflexible to changes in household resources and the construction process.

Publiceringsår

2012-10-12

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

119-135

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Housing and Finance in Developing Countries

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Human Geography

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 9780203217689
  • ISBN: 9780415172424