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1. Podcast: Solutions in Slums

   Amid substandard living conditions, glimmers of hope
   Videos y multimedia
   Agosto 2019
   Episode 4 of the Land Matters podcast with Anthony Flint, Enrique Silva, and Theresa Williamson

   Slums have been a feature of cities for centuries, and accelerating global urbanization has led to an unprecedented number of people living in substandard conditions. Cities have responded with a...

2. Community Land Trusts in Rio’s Favelas

   Could Community Land Trusts in Informal Settlements Help Solve the World’s Affordable Housing Crisis?
   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2018
   By Theresa Williamson

   Mass titling of illegally occupied public land in Brazil could trigger a wave of gentrification and eviction. This adds relevance to a push to promote security of tenure in these communities.

3. Where do Property Rights Matter More?

   Explaining the Variation in Demand for Property Titles across Cities in Mexico
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2017
   Paavo Monkkonen

   Existing empirical research has established that stronger legal claims to property in urban areas have significant market value, but previous studies examine this question in a single city or market...

4. Land Values, Property Rights, and Home Ownership

   Implications for Property Taxation in Peru
   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2018
   Zackary Hawley, Juan José Miranda, and W. Charles Sawyer

   This paper examines land values and the associated property tax implications of formal property rights, informal property rights, and squatting. Using data from the Peruvian Living Standards...

5. Prevención de asentamientos informales a través políticas de expansión urbana de lotificación con servicios para familias de bajos ingresos

   El caso de León Sureste, Nicaragua
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2017
   Marc Pérez Casas and Francesc Magrinyà Torner

   La ciudad de León, en Nicaragua, desarrolla desde 1998 un innovador proyecto de expansión urbana a través de un capital semilla, otorgado por la municipalidad de Utrecht, para la...

6. Transportation in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2013
   Jacob Koch, Luis Antonio Lindau, and Carlos David Nassi

   This paper presents findings on transportation patterns in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, based upon a survey of 2,000 residents in three favelas of diverse typology and geographic location. This study...

7. Dealing with “Small Property Rights” in China’s Land Market Development

   What Can China Learn from Its Past Reforms and the World Experience?
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2014
   Xiaofang Shen and Fan Tu

   This research aims to examine the knotty issue in China’s continued land market reform, the so-called “small property right” (SPR) referring to the ambivalent right to the commercial properties...

8. Regularizador Social

   Alternativa Privada de Regularização de Ocupações Informais
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2014
   Andre Luis Cavalcanti de Albuquerque

   A Terra Nova é uma empresa social do Brasil especializada em mediar conflitos de terra para a regularização fundiária de áreas urbanas particulares ocupadas irregularmente. Tem como missão pacificar...

9. Titulación masiva de tierras en el Perú, 2007–2011

   Contexto y resultados
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2014
   Julio Calderón Cockburn

   El objetivo del estudio del proyecto titulación masiva de tierra en Perú (Massive land titling in Peru) es presentar un instrumento de política urbana que ha sido considerado exitoso por el Estado...

10. Oferta de suelo servido y vivienda para la población de escasos recursos en Aguascalientes

    Documentos de trabajo
    Junio 2014
    Edith R. Jiménez Huerta

    La gran mayoría de las ciudades en México y otros países latinoamericanos se han expandido sobre suelo informal. La escasez de suelo formal a un precio accesible y en cantidades suficientes para que...