This Article Free Full Text (Free PDF) Free Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Web of Science (5) Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Budds, J. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

Ensuring the right to the city: pro-poor housing, urban development and tenure legalization in São Paulo, Brazil

School of Geography and the Environment, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB, United Kingdomjessica.budds{at}geog.ox.ac.uk

Paulo Teixeira

Câmara Municipal de São Paulo, Palácio Anchieta, Viaduto Jacareí 100, 10 andar – sala 1008, São Paulo–SP, CEP 01319-900, Brazilpauloteixeira{at}camara.sp.gov.br

SEHAB

São Paulo is one of Latin America’s most modern and developed cities, yet around one-third of its 10 million inhabitants live in poor-quality housing in sub-standard settlements. This paper describes the response of the São Paulo municipal government that took office in 2001. Through its Secretariat of Housing and Urban Development, it designed a new policy framework with a strong emphasis on improving the quantity and quality of housing for low-income groups. Supported by new legislation, financial instruments and partnerships with the private sector, the mainstays of the new policy are integrated housing and urban development, modernization of the administrative system, and public participation in all decision-making and implementation processes. The programmes centre on upgrading and legalizing land tenure in informal settlements, and regeneration of the city centre. The new focus on valuing the investments that low-income groups have already made in their housing and settlements has proved to be more cost-effective than previous interventions, leading to improvements on an impressive scale.

Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 17, No. 1, 89-114 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/095624780501700105


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?

This article has been cited by other articles:

				D. Satterthwaite Editorial: What role for mayors in good city governance? Environment and Urbanization, April 1, 2009; 21(1): 3 - 17. [PDF]

				H. Bang Shin Living on the edge: financing post-displacement housing in urban redevelopment projects in Seoul Environment and Urbanization, October 1, 2008; 20(2): 411 - 426. [Abstract] [PDF]