Housing Policy in Latin American Cities

Peter M. Ward holds the C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair in US-Mexico Relations, and is professor in the Department of Sociology at University of Texas-Austin. He was formerly director of the Mexican Center at LLILAS, and served as Executive Editor of the Latin American Research Review between 2002-07. He is author or co-author of 17 books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters on low income housing, land markets, social policy, democratization and governance, Mexican politics and megacities (most notably Mexico City). He is the coordinator of the multi-city Latin American Housing Research Network.

This book is the first and only composite overview of the research findings and advocacy of the generic policy lines that the Latin American Housing Network identifies as central to a new generation of housing strategies and approaches.

1. Latin Americäs "Innerburbs": Towards a New Generation of Housing Policies for Low-Income Consolidated Self-help Settlements; Peter M. Ward. 2. A Spectrum of Policies for Housing Rehab and Community Regeneration in the "Innerburbs"; Peter M. Ward. 3. Opportunities and Challenges for Consolidated Informal Urbanization in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara; Edith R. Jiménez Huerta and Heriberto Cruz Solís. 4. The Challenge for Housing Rehab in Mexico City and Monterrey; Peter M. Ward. 5. The Challenges of Consolidation in Precarious Settlements of Caribbean Cities: Santo Dominto, Dominican Republic; Erika Denisse Grajeda. 6. The Consolidation of the City and Low-income settlements in Guatemala City; Bryan Roberts. 7. New Approaches to Intervention in the Informally Settled Areas of Bogotá; Angélica Camargo Sierra. 8. Rehab, "Los Aires" and Densification of Consolidated Settlements in Lima, Peru; Danielle M. Rojas and Peter M. Ward, In collaboration with Olga Peek and Martha Lazarte Salinas. 9. Unique, or Just Different? Self-help, Social Housing and Rehab in Santiago, Chile; Peter M. Ward, In collaboration with Carolina Flores and Francisco Sabatini.10. Residential Trajectories of the Older Irregular Settlements in the City of Montevideo; Magdalena Marsiglia and María José Doyenart. 11. Transformations in the Originally Informal Consolidated Urban Areas of Metropolitan Buenos Aires; María Mercedes Di Virgilio, María Soledad Arqueros Mejica, and Tomás Guevara. 12. Rental Markets and Housing Policies in Consolidated Informal Settlements; Edith R. Jiménez Huerta and Angélica Camargo Sierra. 13. Urban Regeneration and Housing Rehabilitation in Latin Americäs Innerburbs; Peter M. Ward, Edith R. Jiménez Huerta and María Mercedes Di Virgilio