Collateral Damage? Transforming Subprime Slum Dwellers into Homeowners

Patricia Campbell

22 citations0/0 files storedHousing Studies

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Urban and Rural Development Challenges Land Rights and Reforms Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism

Abstract

Homeownership has been elevated to the position of a superior form of tenure, offering seemingly limitless benefits from capital gain to more abstract notions of security, empowerment and good citizenship. The international discourse on housing policy has mirrored this privilege, particularly evident with the celebration of Hernando de Soto and his promotion of formal property rights as the solution to global poverty. Formalisation schemes are said to provide a route to economic prosperity by transforming ‘slum dwellers’ into ‘homeowners’, offering a route to access formal credit and ending the undercapitalisation of the poor. Drawing on the example of de Soto-inspired MKURABITA titling scheme in Tanzania, this paper questions the favour of ownership policies in the Global South in the wake of the subprime crisis.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 22 citations exist upstream.

References

1997Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy 1991The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality 1998Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed 2000The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else 1998Seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed 2003The right to the city 2006Planet of Slums 2000Misteri i Kapitalit

Cited by

2016The Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Political Effects of Housing in Comparative Perspective 2013Towards an Understanding the Outcomes of Housing Privatisation in South Africa 2014From informality to formality to informality: Extralegal land transfers in an upgraded informal settlement of South Africa 2021Wealthier-but-poorer: The complex sociology of homeownership at peripheral housing in Cartagena, Colombia 2021How effective are informal property rights in cities? Reexamining the relationship between informality and housing quality in Dar es Salaam

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.