《Social housing and accessibility in Brazil's unequal cities》
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- 作者
- Camila Cardoso Leite;Mariana Giannotti;Gilmara Gonçalves
- 来源
- HABITAT INTERNATIONAL,Vol.127,P.102628
- 语言
- 英文
- 关键字
- 作者单位
- Center for Metropolitan Studies and Laboratory for Geospatial Analysis at Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-070, SP, Brazil;Center for Metropolitan Studies and Laboratory for Geospatial Analysis at Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-070, SP, Brazil;Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria;Department of Geoinformatics and Surveying, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria;Department of Management, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria;Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, #9, Block 4, Renminnan Road, Chengdu, 610041, China;University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing, 100049, China;Power China Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited, Hangzhou, 310014, Zhejiang Province, China;School of Geography and Environment, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250014, China;College of Management of Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, China;Sichuan Center for Rural Development Research, College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, 211 Huimin Road, Wenjiang District, Chengdu, 611130, China;School of the Built Environment, Kyambogo University, P.O. Box 1, Kampala, Uganda;Institute of Human Settlements Studies, Ardhi University, P. O. Box 35124, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania;Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore;Urban and Regional Planning Department, University of Colorado Denver, CO, USA;Department of Geography & Earth Sciences, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA;College of Arts and Architecture, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA;School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China;Department of Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China;School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China;School of Public Affairs Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China;Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
- 摘要
- Ensuring equal access to opportunities while assessing the housing needs of low-income populations has been a significant challenge in many global south countries. Social housing programs have been recurrently criticized for reinforcing inequalities by ignoring the poor conditions of urban access. This study evaluates the urban access of a national social housing program, My House My Life (Minha Casa Minha Vida, MCMV), in Brazil, one of the most unequal countries in the world. This program is renowned for building many of its housing projects in urban outskirts. We use job accessibility metrics to identify differences and similarities in MCMV housing production in six large Brazilian cities through a comparative lens. We find that although MCMV beneficiaries have less access to job opportunities than average-income citizens, the program may improve their conditions compared to individuals with similar income levels within central cities. We hope that future studies may expand this work to include the surrounding metropolitan areas, which were not considered due to data restrictions. We also expect to encourage other efforts in the investigation of social housing impacts through spatial data science, especially in evaluating accessibility in large-scale social housing programs.