Housing Provision through Real Estate Development: Adopting Public-Private Partnerships for Affordable Housing Delivery in Brazil

Izar, Priscila

Housing Provision through Real Estate Development: Adopting Public-Private Partnerships for Affordable Housing Delivery in Brazil

dc.contributor.author	Izar, Priscila	en
dc.contributor.committeechair	Datz, Giselle	en
dc.contributor.committeechair	Bieri, David S.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Cowell, Margaret M.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Fix, Mariana	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Hyra, Derek S.	en
dc.contributor.department	Public Administration/Public Affairs	en
dc.date.accessioned	2019-09-20T06:00:27Z	en
dc.date.available	2019-09-20T06:00:27Z	en
dc.date.issued	2018-03-28	en
dc.description.abstract	This dissertation analyzes contemporary transformations in urban policy and space production in Brazil; in particular, those associated with state efforts to attract the private sector to participate in the design, finance, development and long-term management of infrastructure and housing provision systems. While the study's focus is on adoption of the public-private partnership (PPP) mechanism in the affordable housing sector, empirical research is based on the case study analysis of Casa Paulista Program, the first PPP for affordable housing delivery in the country, sponsored by the State Government of São Paulo and implemented in the central districts of the city of São Paulo, the state's capital. Specific questions driving the research are twofold: in the first, I ask what were the characteristics of the Casa Paulista PPP model, and in the second, how public and private agents, including social groups, affected the evolution of the model. Permeating this analysis is the concern as to how housing provision through PPPs may affect the ability of local populations to access adequate housing and fully participate in city living, as demanded by social housing movements and urban reform advocates and predicted in Brazil's Federal Constitution, and rights-based urban policy at national and local levels. Findings indicate that the Casa Paulista model, while neither leveraging private capital nor scaling up housing production, facilitates rearrangements in the private local housing market, urban policy, and social relationships around housing provision. These efforts are successful only with support of the development and finance industries operating beyond the local scale. I argue that these new rearrangements support a publicly funded, privately managed model to support predominantly residential real estate development projects of large scale and which are debt financed through long term agreements. This dynamic generates risk to society's ability to control urban transformation in the central city area and support preservation of a stock of public and private land where affordable housing development is currently prioritized, an outcome I describe as 'privatizing planning and socializing risk'.	en
dc.description.degree	PHD	en
dc.format.medium	ETD	en
dc.identifier.other	vt_gsexam:14509	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/93930	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject	affordable housing	en
dc.subject	public-private partnership	en
dc.subject	financialization	en
dc.subject	right to the city	en
dc.subject	real estate	en
dc.title	Housing Provision through Real Estate Development: Adopting Public-Private Partnerships for Affordable Housing Delivery in Brazil	en
dc.type	Dissertation	en
thesis.degree.discipline	Planning, Governance, and Globalization	en
thesis.degree.grantor	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	en
thesis.degree.level	doctoral	en
thesis.degree.name	Ph. D.	en