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Is affordable housing a pro‐poor policy? Evidence from a prominent housing policy in Iran

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  • Mohammad Ghazaie
  • Mojtaba Rafieian

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This paper examines if affordable housing as a representative of planning serves the pro‐poor policies or is used as a means against the poor. To this aim, Mehr housing, as the most significant and costly affordable housing planning practice in Iran, is studied by conducting a comprehensive review of 65 different related studies and using data‐driven coding, with results compared with other contexts. Findings are classified into four main categories entitled “production and reproduction of poverty,” “money participates rather than individuals,” “the construction of shelters rather than residential environment,” and “unsustainable affordable housing developments.” Considering the relationships between categories and comparing them with experiences in other contexts indicate that affordable housing planning serves as an anti‐pro‐poor policy using the poor as means, not ends, for the salvation of state and/or society. This process ended in sweeping the poor into formal informalities. Reorientation of power and relying on local settings are pathways for planning to serve pro‐poor policies. 本文分析了经济适用房作为一种规划是否服务于扶贫政策还是被用作对抗穷人的手段。为此,本文通过对65项不同的相关研究进行全面审视并使用数据驱动编码,研究了Mehr住房作为伊朗最重要且可负担的住房规划实践,并将结果与其他情境相比较。研究发现表明了Mehr住房的后果,并被分为四个主要类别,它们分别是:“贫困的生产和再生产”、“金钱参与而不是个人(参与)”、“建设庇护所而不是居住环境”以及“不可持续的经济适用房开发”。通过考量类别之间的关系并将其与其他情境经验进行比较,本文表明,经济适用房规划充当了反扶贫政策的作用,将穷人作为拯救国家和/或社会的手段,而不是目的。这一过程最终将穷人扫入正式的非正式场所。重新定位权力和依赖地方环境是支持扶贫政策规划的途径。 Este documento examina si la vivienda asequible como representante de la planificación sirve a las políticas en favor de los pobres o se utiliza como un medio contra los pobres. Con este objetivo, la vivienda Mehr, como la práctica de planificación de viviendas asequibles más importante y costosa en Irán, se estudia mediante la realización de una revisión exhaustiva de 65 estudios relacionados diferentes y el uso de codificación basada en datos, y los resultados se comparan con otros contextos. Los hallazgos que también significan las consecuencias de la vivienda de Mehr se clasifican en cuatro categorías principales tituladas “producción y reproducción de la pobreza”, “el dinero participa en lugar de los individuos”, “la construcción de refugios en lugar del entorno residencial” y “desarrollos de viviendas asequibles insostenibles”. Considerando las relaciones de categorías y comparándolas con experiencias de otros contextos, se indica que la planificación de viviendas asequibles sirve como una política anti‐pro‐pobres que utiliza a los pobres como medios, no como fines, para la salvación del estado y/o la sociedad. Este proceso terminó arrastrando a los pobres a la informalidad formal. La reorientación del poder y la dependencia de los entornos locales son vías para la planificación al servicio de las políticas favorables a los pobres.

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  • Mohammad Ghazaie & Mojtaba Rafieian, 2022. "Is affordable housing a pro‐poor policy? Evidence from a prominent housing policy in Iran," Poverty & Public Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 14(4), pages 381-404, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:povpop:v:14:y:2022:i:4:p:381-404
    DOI: 10.1002/pop4.355
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