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Property titles and the urban poor: from informality to displacement?

Varley, A; (2016) Property titles and the urban poor: from informality to displacement? Planning Theory & Practice , 18 (3) pp. 385-404. 10.1080/14649357.2016.1235223. Green open access

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Abstract

An extensive literature opposes the provision of property titles for the residents of informal settlements. One concern is that titling leads to commodification and the market-driven displacement of the original inhabitants. Another is that it propagates the ideology of private ownership, undermines collective solidarity and demobilises social movements. This article, based on observations from Mexico City and Guadalajara, finds little evidence of displacement but highlights the importance of location. It supports the view that formalisation undermines resistance, but argues that titling does so by meeting rather than creating the desire of the urban poor for private property and homeownership.

Type: Article
Title: Property titles and the urban poor: from informality to displacement?
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2016.1235223
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2016.1235223
Language: English
Additional information: © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Titling, property, informality, displacement, Mexico
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1503594
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