Subsistence and Petty Capitalist Landlords: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Landlordism in Third World Urban Low Income Settlements*
Subsistence and Petty Capitalist Landlords: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Landlordism in Third World Urban Low Income Settlements*
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生存与小资本主义地主:第三世界城市低收入住区地主统治分析的理论框架*
DOI:
10.1111/j.1468-2427.1996.tb00318.x
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发表时间:
1996
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
S. Kumar
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作者:
S. Kumar
There are two facets to rental housing: it is ‘produced’by landlords’ and ‘consumed’by tenants. Until recently, research on rental housing in third world cities has focused primarily on the latter. While tenants in inner city areas have received some attention (cf. Beijaard, 1986; Hardoy, 1983; Kalim, 1988) much of the research has rightly focused on tenants in low-income settlements, given the responsiveness of this housing sub-market to the current demand for rental housing (see, for instance, Edwards, 1983; 1982; Gilbert, 1987; 1983; Gilbert and Varley, 1990; Gilbert and Ward, 1982). By demonstrating that households rent accommodation primarily as a result of the constraints on the access to ownership, this research has made two important contributions. Firstly, it provides an understanding of the factors which underpin the demand for rental accommodation. Secondly, it has helped place the issue of rental housing on the agenda of international agencies such as UNCHS (Habitat) and the World Bank. However, the production of rental housing is yet to receive similar attention. 2 Recent writing on the subject focuses on the scale of operation of individual landlords and explores landlord-tenant relationships (see, for instance, Aina, 1990; Amis, 1984; Gilbert and Varley, 1991; 1989; Lee-Smith, 1990; Pennant, 1990; Potts with Mutambira, 1981). The conditions responsible for the development of landlordism are rarely explored. In fact, most of the studies on tenants and landlords view the production of rental housing as either a demand-supply response or an essential part of the low-income housing consolidation process. If these assumptions are true, why are most if not all households in