
Accountability Relations in Social Housing Programs
a comparative legal analysis of Brazilian and Chilean case studies
Mariana Vilmondes(Author)
Logos Berlin (Publisher)
Published on 16. June 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
529 pages
978-3-8325-5488-0 (ISBN)
Description
Institutional crises have been continuously embeded in weak accountability. In Latin America, human rights' violations catalyze the outcomes of such crises. In the aim of understanding the housing crisis, this research evidenced a vicious cycle in Brazil and Chile: despite the creation of massive social housing programs, the lack of adequate housing particularly affects the most-poor due to weak accountability. The comparison of legal accountability relations in the urban social housing ownership models Minha Casa, Minha Vida, from Brazil, and D.S. 49, D.S. 1, and D.S. 19, from Chile, revealed several of those inconsistencies, but also advised on concrete solutions to their accountability relations inspired by the rights-based approach. Policies fall short on the organization of responsibilities to duty-bearers, whose weak obligations to inform, justify or respond neutralize concrete chances of enforcing redress or grievance. In such a scenario, this research showed that the most-vulnerable remain hindered from accessing the minimum existencial and, particularly, adequate housing. The solution is obvious: the respect, protection and fulfillment of human rights must be used as means and goals of those or any other policies and institutional structures.
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Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
22
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.5 cm
ISBN-13
978-3-8325-5488-0 (9783832554880)
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Person
Mariana Vilmondes studied and practiced law in Brazil, before coming to Germany in 2011 to take a Master degree in political sciences, sociology and history in the University of Siegen. She then pursued her Ph.D in international development studies at the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy, Ruhr-University of Bochum (IEE-RUB). Supported by the International Realization Budget, she conducted field research in Brazil, participated in the UN-Habitat PrepCom2, in Nairobi, Kenya and visited the King's College. Since March 2021, she works as an underwriter for a german reinsurer.