The purpose of this chapter is to survey recent research on housing markets and policy in
what used to be called the “second” and “third” worlds. We adopt the labels “transition” …

This paper estimates housing tenure choice models for the Ibadan housing market in
Nigeria. The empirical analysis based on a logit regression model reveals that the key …

The Habitat II conference in June 1996 was more determined by retrospect and prospect
than by the discussions during the several days in Istanbul. The policy outcomes were …

The paper has applied a conventional framework of analysis of implicit markets to determine
the characteristics of demand for housing attributes of quantity and quality in the urban areas …

This paper obtains willingness-to-pay estimates for housing characteristics in two cities of
the Third World. The analysis estimates housing demand, using household bid-rent …

Housing Demand, Tenure Choice, and Housing Policy in Brazil Page 1 253 In Brazil, as in
other Latin American countries, government housing policies have emphasized promoting …

Despite the fairly recent start of housing reform since the late 1990s, China has transformed
rapidly from a country dominated by public rents to a country with one of the highest …

In market economies, homeownership is associated with positive externalities. Increasing
the levels of homeownership has been an objective of governments for the last decades …

Owner-occupied housing is the norm in the low-income, informal settlements along the US–
Mexico border known as colonias. As a result, renters and renting have been largely …

In this paper, we use analyze data from a survey of over thirteen hundred household
housing-tenures in Panama. Our objective is to identify the features which determine …