The Impact of the National Housing Program on Residential Segregation in Costa Rica

 

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Forfatter: Pérez Molina, Eduardo
Format: artículo original
Fecha de Publicación:2022
Beskrivelse:Residential socio-economic segregation in Costa Rica had an overall decreasing trend between 1973 and 2011 because of a sustained reduction in the amount of lower income households. However, in 1986, the national housing program was reformed, including a ten-fold increase in housing supply (292 thousand subsidies allocated in 1987-2011, in a country with 1.36 million housing units). The pattern of these subsidies was hypothesized to increase residential segregation in Costa Rica. Segregation indices were estimated per municipality for lower and higher income groups. The impact of social housing subsidies on segregation levels was quantified with a fixed effects model with standard errors corrected for spatial dependence. Social housing supply was found to have historically reduced residential segregation; however, the 1986 reforms created a system that followed the patterns of real estate markets, in turn reducing much of the system’s mitigation effect on residential segregation.
País:Kérwá
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
Sprog:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/89151
Online adgang:https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10780874221113514
https://hdl.handle.net/10669/89151
Palabra clave:Residential segregation
SOCIAL HOUSING
COSTA RICA