We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Pathways to assisted self-help housing: the evolution of Mexico's housing governability system.
- Authors
Valenzuela, Lucía; Friendly, Abigail; van Noorloos, Femke
- Abstract
Assisted self-help housing is a process whereby people are actively involved in the decision-making of their homes' consolidation, receiving tools to better manage resources in building them. While such support is embedded within urban and regional systems, evolving forms of state intervention have received little attention in the literature. In this article, we focus on federal assisted self-help housing programmes in Mexico, where this approach became formalised by the early 2000s. Recent governments positioned assisted self-help housing – at least on paper – as key for Mexico's housing agenda. What we term Mexico's housing governability system has continuously evolved, yet its capacity to address housing needs is challenged. We show that policy and institutional change in Mexico reflect a continuing pathway over several decades to include assisted self-help policies in the housing governability system. We highlight the nonlinear nature of policy development and the paradoxes of formalising flexible selfhelp approaches.
- Subjects
MEXICO; HOUSING; HOUSING policy; URBANIZATION; CIVIL service positions; INTERVENTION (Federal government)
- Publication
International Development Planning Review, 2024, Vol 46, Issue 2, p151
- ISSN
1474-6743
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3828/idpr.2023.11