Governing the Informal: Housing Policies Over Informal Settlements in China, India, and Brazil

摘要: AbstractInformal settlements in cities the global South have been increasingly targeted for redevelopment led by public–private coalitions, especially if they are central locations. Previous scholarship often characterizes housing policies targeting informal as examples of entrepreneurial governance geared toward recapturing land value private and public elites. This understanding, however, glosses over disparate policy choices that local governments use to address settlements. article proposes an analytical framework explain variations responses settlements, it argues various initiatives largely shaped four factors—intergovernmental relations, electoral politics, municipal finance, capacity civil society. With from China, India, Brazil, this study comparatively examines how these forces produced distinct policies, such urban village removal Guangzhou, slum...