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来源

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH,Vol.41,Issue2,P.282-297

语言

英文

关键字

informality; housing; regulation; housing policy; USA; URBAN INFORMALITY; TEXAS COLONIAS; MARKETS; URBANIZATION; SUBDIVISIONS; POLITICS; CITIES; POOR

作者单位

[Durst, Noah J.] Univ Texas Austin, Lyndon B Johnson Sch Publ Affairs, Austin, TX 78713 USA. [Wegmann, Jake] Univ Texas Austin, Sch Architecture, 310 Inner Campus Dr B7500, Austin, TX 78712 USA. Durst, NJ (reprint author), Univ Texas Austin, Lyndon B Johnson Sch Publ Affairs, Austin, TX 78713 USA. E-Mail: noahdurst@gmail.com; jagw@utexas.edu

摘要

Research on informal housing tends to focus overwhelmingly on less developed countries, downplaying or ignoring entirely the presence of informality in United States housing markets. In actuality, a longstanding and widespread tradition of informal housing exists in the United States but is typically disregarded by scholars. In this article we draw on three definitions of informalityas non-compliant, non-enforced, or deregulated economic activityto characterize examples of informality in US housing markets, focusing in particular on five institutions that govern housing market activity in this country: property rights law, property transfer law, land-use and zoning, subdivision regulations, and building codes. The cases presented here challenge the notion that informality is absent from US housing markets and highlight the unique nature of informal housing, US stylenamely, that informal housing in the US is geographically uneven, largely hidden and typically interwoven within formal markets. We conclude with a discussion of how research on informal housing in the US can inform research in the global South.