Rental Tenure in the Cities of Developing Countries
Rental Tenure in the Cities of Developing Countries
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发展中国家城市的租赁权
DOI:
10.1080/00420989550012898
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发表时间:
1995
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影响因子:
4.7
通讯作者:
C. Rakodi
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作者:
C. Rakodi
City-wide housing production systems may be divided into sub-markets with different characteristics along a variety of dimensions, including tenure. Analyses of housing production and consumption in the cities of developing countries over the last 30 years have focused primarily on homeownership, including both those forms promoted by public policies, especially via sites and services schemes, and the attempts by excluded residents to provide shelter for themselves. A variety of economic, political, ideological and practical reasons for the preoccupation of researchers and policymakers with home-ownership can be suggested, but there is insufŪcient space to elaborate on these here. In recent years, greater attention to rental housing has begun to redress the balance. This review attempts to provide an overview of this emerging literature, not because one form of tenure can be considered in isolation from other property market processes, but as a springboard for future research into urban housing markets which is less biased towards ownership. It builds on Gilbert’s (1992) review of recent developments in the study and practice of housing in Third World cities in this journal and my own elsewhere (Rakodi, 1992). Potentially, the range of material which could be included is vast, both because of the geographical coverage implied by the title and because, although most speciŪc studies of rental housing are recent, references to rental housing pepper the general literature on Third World housing. That literature has, until recently, concentrated quite strongly (as have policies and projects) on particular residential areas within cities rather than on city-wide housing markets (Rakodi, 1992), exacerbating the difŪculties of searching for information. Studies of city-wide housing markets are potentially more fruitful sources of information but, not least because of their cost, are few and far between. In this review, I have attempted a systematic coverage of studies which have speciŪcally explored tenancy, but inevitably my abstraction of information on rental tenure from the more general literature is highly selective. 1Research into rental tenure can be grouped into those investigations which attempt to describe and explain the nature of rental housing and those which attempt to evaluate the impact of government policy on the supply of rental dwellings. Following a collation of information on the signiŪcance of rented housing in the total urban stock, some characteristics of the tenure will be explored: forms of rental housing, landlords, tenants, and the relationships between them. The third section of the paper will examine aspects of policy related to rental housing.