Urban land and residential segregation: Towards a social integration agenda for Chile’s metropolitan central areas
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24197/ciudades.18.2015.197-213Keywords:
Urban inner land, residential segregation, metropolitan areas, housing, urban entrepreneurialism, displacement, social integrationAbstract
An analysis of Chile’s residential segregation of metropolitan central areas show that: a) expensive land prices in the centre expel the geographical location of social housing towards distant peripheries, b) an entrepreneurial role deployed by public apparatuses allows ground rent accumulation by the private sector, and c) a housing market operating in inner land excludes the two lowest quintiles of the population, insofar as the state supplies the existing infrastructure and subsidizes the middle-class demand. This article proposes a more inclusive urbanism, including a policy of inner land management aimed to host social housing production, both in the centre and periphery, related to supra-municipal management of land zoning, and a “new deal” aimed to finance the inclusion of low-income housing in inner land, based on state-led, land value capture from the currently highly profitable real estate activity.
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