Land Subdivision Legislation in Brazil — Guilty of Promoting Insecure Housing Tenure?

ERN: Informal Sectors & the Underground Economy in Transitional Economies (Topic) Pub Date : 2015-12-30 DOI:10.18836/2178-0587/EALR.V6N2P304-321

P. Ávila

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Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The Brazilian federal legislation on land subdivision approved in 1979 and its local implementation by municipalities contributed to increase housing informality from 1980 to 2000, a period of marked changes in the economic, demographic, and social scenarios. Econometric analysis of a cross-sectional and time-series panel of censuses data regarding insecure housing tenure suggests that regulations on land subdivision played an important role in the growth of housing informality in Brazil, regardless demographic and economic factors. This was most noticeable when local ordinances overregulated land subdivision parameters. We argue that stricter and more demanding requirements for approval and registration of land developments increased costs and risks for subdividing land formally within a scenario of economic downturn. This constrained formal land supply elasticity for the low-income housing demand which probably forced developers into informality to eliminate the costs and red tape involved in developing land formally.

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巴西的土地细分立法——助长了不安全的住房使用权?

1979年通过的巴西联邦土地分割法及其在地方市政当局的实施促进了1980年至2000年期间住房非正式性的增加，这是经济、人口和社会状况发生显著变化的时期。对关于无保障住房保有权的横断面和时间序列人口普查数据进行的计量经济学分析表明，无论人口和经济因素如何，关于土地细分的规定在巴西住房非正式性的增长中发挥了重要作用。当地方条例对土地细分参数规定过度时，这一点最为明显。我们认为，在经济衰退的情况下，对土地开发的批准和注册的更严格和更苛刻的要求增加了正式细分土地的成本和风险。这限制了低收入住房需求的正式土地供应弹性，这可能迫使开发商采取非正式方式，以消除正式开发土地所涉及的成本和繁文缛节。

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