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- Title
Solving the Housing Crisis Half-a-House at a Time: Incremental Housing as a Means to Fulfilling the Human Right to Housing.
- Authors
Halloran, Vincent
- Abstract
This student note will attempt to answer two broad questions: 1) Does Chile's incremental housing model fulfill an international human right to housing?; and 2) Can incremental housing be implemented in a U.S. jurisdiction? Incremental housing is a unique social housing model developed by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, which consists of building just half-a-house, thus allowing the recipients to maximize limited housing subsidies through participatory improvements to ultimately gain transferable wealth through credit. While incremental housing does not offer a panacea in application in Chile, the model represents an important step toward realizing a right to housing in a deeply unequal environment. Incremental housing is not only implementable in a U.S. jurisdiction, but also offers an innovative model to make social housing viable.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HOUSING laws; RIGHT to housing; ARAVENA, Alejandro, 1967-; ARCHITECTS; HOUSING subsidies; JURISDICTION
- Publication
University of Miami Inter-American Law Review, 2020, Vol 52, Issue 1, p95
- ISSN
0884-1756
- Publication type
Article