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A Better Metro Manila?Ensuring the Affordability of Socialized Housing: Toward Livable and Sustainable Homes for the Filipino Poor

A Better Metro Manila?: Ensuring the Affordability of Socialized Housing: Toward Livable and... [Affordability of housing is a critical component of the right to adequate housing. A house is deemed affordable when it is adequate in quality, and its cost does not prohibit the meeting of basic needs or threaten the enjoyment of human rights. Combining economic analysis of longitudinal national data from 2000 to 2015 and case studies of a cited in-city housing program and off-city resettlement life, this paper tackles the affordability of socialized housing for the poorest Filipinos within a human rights framework. The dominant approach of privatized off-city resettlement production has not addressed affordability. The focus on lowering housing prices ignores livelihood displacement, cost of living adjustments, and transportation and social service inaccessibility. For the poorest of the poor, an income-based housing subsidy, combined with urban land reform to regulate land prices and transport-oriented and inclusive urban planning, are critical to ensuring the right to adequate housing and development.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Better Metro Manila?Ensuring the Affordability of Socialized Housing: Toward Livable and Sustainable Homes for the Filipino Poor

Editors: Tadem, Teresa S. Encarnacion; Atienza, Maria Ela L.
Arcilla, Chester Antonino C.
A Better Metro Manila? — Mar 1, 2023
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Publisher
Springer Nature Singapore
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
ISBN
978-981-19-7803-6
Pages
259 –289
DOI
10.1007/978-981-19-7804-3_8
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Abstract

[Affordability of housing is a critical component of the right to adequate housing. A house is deemed affordable when it is adequate in quality, and its cost does not prohibit the meeting of basic needs or threaten the enjoyment of human rights. Combining economic analysis of longitudinal national data from 2000 to 2015 and case studies of a cited in-city housing program and off-city resettlement life, this paper tackles the affordability of socialized housing for the poorest Filipinos within a human rights framework. The dominant approach of privatized off-city resettlement production has not addressed affordability. The focus on lowering housing prices ignores livelihood displacement, cost of living adjustments, and transportation and social service inaccessibility. For the poorest of the poor, an income-based housing subsidy, combined with urban land reform to regulate land prices and transport-oriented and inclusive urban planning, are critical to ensuring the right to adequate housing and development.]

Published: Mar 1, 2023

Keywords: Socialized housing; Affordability; Human rights; Income-based housing subsidies; Inclusive urban planning

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