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Land Value Capture: Creating the Financial Means for Affordable Cities

AFFORDABLE CITIES

Land Value Capture: Creating the Financial Means for Affordable Cities

By Sena Segbedzi|2024-01-04T16:29:16+01:00July 19th 2022|

Creating liveable, affordable cities requires significant public investments. How to finance them? The answer may lie in land value capture. This financing tool allows municipalities to recover the land value gains that result from public action such as zoning changes or investment in public infrastructure, to invest them back into the city. Sena Segbedzi, OECD Champion Mayors for Inclusive Growth Initiative, shares stories of success from all over the world.

Urban Challenges in Post-COVID Times

WORLD URBAN FORUM

Urban Challenges in Post-COVID Times

By Cynthia Goytia|2024-01-04T15:50:14+01:00June 30th 2022|

The COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated existing challenges in the domain of social inclusion and housing. Cynthia Goytia on how cities can rise to these challenges and which solutions have already proven successful in urban Latin America.

Regularising Unauthorised Colonies in Delhi: Well-Intended but Not Enough

Regularising Unauthorised Colonies in Delhi: Well-Intended but Not Enough

By Sukrit Nagpal, Smriti Singh and Sonal Sharma|2024-01-04T14:24:39+01:00March 30th 2021|

A recent regularisation scheme promises to improve the tenure security of about 5 million Delhi residents. But how inclusive is the scheme and does it keep pace with the realities on the ground? Sukrit Nagpal, Smriti Singh and Sonal Sharma from SEWA Bharat take a critical look.

Learning from Latin America’s Informal Settlements and Urban Policies

Learning from Latin America’s Informal Settlements and Urban Policies

By Cynthia Goytia|2024-01-04T14:25:41+01:00March 18th 2021|

Informal housing is a common phenomenon in Latin America, and governmental regulations are designed to counteract it. However, some of them have had the opposite effect. Cynthia Goytia on its underlying dynamics and a necessary shift in urban policies.

Formalising Land While Promoting Social Justice and Economic Benefit

Formalising Land While Promoting Social Justice and Economic Benefit

By James Kavanagh|2024-01-04T14:26:19+01:00March 11th 2021|

When informal land is valued, transferred, or titled, it comes with many opportunities, but also great risks. James Kavanagh on beneficial standards and governance approaches.

Building Rights and Municipal Finance – The Experience of São Paulo, Brazil

Building Rights and Municipal Finance – The Experience of São Paulo, Brazil

By Martim O. Smolka & Camila Maleronka|2024-01-03T14:58:43+01:00June 6th 2019|

Revenue from building rights, or land value capture, plays an important role for municipal finance. Martim O. Smolka and Camila Maleronka report on the specific challenges and achievements in the city of São Paulo.

Who Captures the Gain from Urban Land Value?

Who Captures the Gain from Urban Land Value?

By Priya Manwaring|2024-01-03T14:59:37+01:00June 4th 2019|

Urban land offers governments in developing countries a vital opportunity for self-financing development. While authorities often see these taxes as administratively burdensome and politically impossible, this doesn’t have to be the case.

“We Have to Use Land Much More Carefully”

“We Have to Use Land Much More Carefully”

By Shri Saranyan Krishnan|2024-01-02T16:12:03+01:00August 30th 2018|

URBANET spoke to Shri Saranyan Krishnan about the particularities of urban land governance in India’s state of Tamil Nadu.

By the People, For the People: Social and Environmental Revitalisation of the Caño Martín Peña, Puerto Rico

By the People, For the People: Social and Environmental Revitalisation of the Caño Martín Peña, Puerto Rico

By Lorena Zárate|2024-01-02T15:09:42+01:00August 22nd 2018|

Improving the living conditions in low-income communities always entails the threat of gentrification processes, eventually displacing the original residents. Lorena Zárate claims that this is not an inevitable outcome, as can be seen in the success of the Caño Martín Peña Land Use Plan.

Reclaiming Urban Planning

Reclaiming Urban Planning

By Prabha Khosla|2024-01-02T15:10:46+01:00August 8th 2018|

To realise the SDGs, women's rights to land, housing, and tenure in cities have to be ensured, argues Prabha Khosla. To do so, we need to challenge both patriarchal and neoliberal structures.

Land Governance: Catalyst for Sustainable Urban Development

Land Governance: Catalyst for Sustainable Urban Development

By Danilo Antonio|2024-01-02T15:11:07+01:00August 2nd 2018|

Without land reforms, sustainable urbanisation is set to fail, argues Danilo Antonio from UN-Habitat. In his article, he outlines the conflicting interests around land governance issues and points out ways to secure land access and property rights for all urban dwellers.

Gender equity and land ownership in Bolivia

Gender equity and land ownership in Bolivia

By URBANET|2023-12-19T14:48:35+01:00March 13th 2017|

In Bolivia, up until recently only men were recognised in titles of land ownership. If these men passed away or left, their wives or partners legally had no rights to the land and property they lived on. To change this, Habitat for Humanity International started a campaign to legally recognise women as land owners in Bolivia.

Spotlight on livable cities, Part II: The Changing Mechanisms of Planning

Spotlight on livable cities, Part II: The Changing Mechanisms of Planning

By Shipra Narang Suri|2023-12-19T14:43:15+01:00November 23rd 2016|

What do cities in India need to be more livable? In the four part series "Spotlight on livable cities", ISOCARP Vice-President Shipra Narang Suri aims to answer this question by approaching it from various angles, giving examples from different areas of urban planning. In this second part, she talks about urban building master plans, the land housing market in India's cities and the urban poor.