The Impact of the National Housing Program on Residential Segregation in Costa Rica
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2022-07-18
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Pérez Molina, Eduardo
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Residential socio-economic segregation in Costa Rica had an overall decreasing
trend between 1973 and 2011 because of a sustained reduction in the amount
of lower income households. However, in 1986, the national housing program was
reformed, including a ten-fold increase in housing supply (292 thousand subsidies
allocated in 1987-2011, in a country with 1.36 million housing units). The pattern of
these subsidies was hypothesized to increase residential segregation in Costa Rica.
Segregation indices were estimated per municipality for lower and higher income
groups. The impact of social housing subsidies on segregation levels was quantified
with a fixed effects model with standard errors corrected for spatial dependence.
Social housing supply was found to have historically reduced residential segregation;
however, the 1986 reforms created a system that followed the patterns of real
estate markets, in turn reducing much of the system’s mitigation effect on residential
segregation.
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Residential segregation, SOCIAL HOUSING, COSTA RICA