Stimulating an exclusionary market : the institutional logic of Chile's enabling markets housing policy regime
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Urban segregation represents a central challenge for housing law and policy around the world. A large body of research has demonstrated the negative impact on life opportunities of the concentration of disadvantaged groups in isolated urban areas. Many governments are therefore making great effort to implement inclusionary housing policies. This dissertation centers the analysis on Chile, a country that has successfully provided massive access to formal housing in recent decades under an institutional logic known as an enabling markets housing policy approach. Although a quantitative success, the approach also has an important downside: the agglomeration of low-income families on the periphery of Chile's urban areas, often in isolated and segregated conditions. Addressing this problematic outcome of Chile's low-income housing policy has become central priority in the governmental agenda, but the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism (MHU) has not been able to make significant headway. Through in-depth case study research on the Chilean regime comprising more than 50 interviews conducted with key stakeholders, as well as the analysis of documentary information and administrative data, the dissertation asks why the MHU has not been able to implement an effective inclusionary housing policy. The main argument I offer is that, since the adoption of the enabling markets approach, Chile's governments have been successively trapped in a singular institutional logic for the provision of affordable housing that confines the role of the government to the stimulation of the housing market through the allocation of targeted subsidies aimed at promoting homeownership. This strategy has shown very limited success in enabling low-income households to compete with location preferences of higher-income groups. In the dissertation I also argue that this institutional logic has been maintained over the years, by administrations with different political ideologies, because of certain obstacles to effectuate radical policy changes. Prominent among the constraints has been the increasing alignment of interests between the real estate industry and the government bureaucracy, which are the two most powerful stakeholders in this social policy arena. The implementation of the subsidy-based policy regime has been very convenient for these two stakeholders. The analysis of Chile's low-income housing policy offers interesting lessons for many countries around the world that are struggling to implement laws and policies that might stimulate more inclusionary responses from housing markets. The analysis is also relevant for countries that may have urgent short-term housing needs, but that remain nonetheless interested in housing laws and policies that may avoid creating or reinforcing the kinds of segregation patterns that are very costly to change in the long run.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Gil Mc Cawley, Diego |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Law JSD. |
| Primary advisor | Hensler, Deborah R, 1942- |
| Primary advisor | Simon, William H, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Hensler, Deborah R, 1942- |
| Thesis advisor | Simon, William H, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Cuéllar, Mariano-Florentino |
| Advisor | Cuéllar, Mariano-Florentino |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Diego Gil Mc Cawley. |
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| Note | Submitted to the School of Law JSD. |
| Thesis | Thesis (JSD)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- © 2016 by Diego Gil Mc Cawley
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