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Slum Growth in Brazilian Cities

dc.contributor.authorAlves, Guillermo
dc.coverage.spatialBrasilen_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-24T22:53:12Z
dc.date.available2016-10-24T22:53:12Z
dc.date.issued2016-10-10
dc.identifier.citationAlves, G. (2016, October 10). Slum Growth in Brazilian Cities. CAF – Working paper;N° 2016/10, Caracas: CAF. Retrieved from https://scioteca.caf.com/handle/123456789/958en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://scioteca.caf.com/handle/123456789/958
dc.description.tableofcontentsI study slum growth in contemporary urbanization processes by estimating a spatial equilibrium model with houses with and without basic water and sanitation services in Brazilian cities between 1991 and 2010. Slum growth results from households moving to cities following higher wages (elasticity of 1.7), this movement impacting cities’ serviced housing rents much more (elasticity of 0.4) than unserviced ones (elasticity of 0.1), and these rent changes impacting households’ location decisions more for serviced (elasticity of -0.5) than for unserviced houses (elasticity of -0.4). I show that the effect of urban economic growth on cities’ slum incidence depends critically on what happens in other cities. When a few cities grow, they experience higher slum incidence because they are the focus for migrants coming from rural areas and less dynamic cities. When all cities grow, slum incidence declines in all cities as a result of two forces. First, each individual city faces less housing demand pressure as migration between cities becomes more balanced and rural migrants flow to all cities. Second, generalized economic growth improves households’ incomes nation-wide, allowing households to switch to higher quality non-slum housing. In terms of common slum policies, I show that the effects of slum repression on any individual city are mild and decrease with the number of other cities repressing slums. If all cities repress slums by making unserviced housing 20% more expensive, this lowers aggregate urbanization by 0.4% and low income households’ welfare by 1.1%. On the other hand, a generalized slum upgrading policy turning 10% of cities’ 1991 unserviced housing stock into serviced housing, increases aggregate urbanization by 1.1%, low income households’ welfare by 4.0%, and high income households’ welfare by 3.6%.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCAFen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCAF – Working paper;N° 2016/10
dc.rightsCC-BY-NCes_ES
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/es_ES
dc.subjectInvestigación socioeconómicaen_US
dc.subjectPobrezaen_US
dc.subjectViviendaen_US
dc.titleSlum Growth in Brazilian Citiesen_US
dc.typeworkingPaperen_US
dc.publisher.cityCaracasen_US


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