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The informal construction sector and the inefficiency of low cost housing markets

Gonzalo Lizarralde Department of Construction Management and Economics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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David Root Department of Construction Management and Economics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Pages 103-113 | Received 08 Dec 2006, Accepted 14 Nov 2007, Published online: 26 Feb 2008

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Gonzalo Lizarralde, Lisa Bornstein, Benjamin Herazo, Roberto Burdiles, Claudio Araneda, Holmes Páez Martínez, Julia Helena Diaz, Gabriel Fauveaud, Andrés Olivera, Gonzalo Gonzalez, Oswaldo López, Adriana López & Tapan Dhar. (2022) The problem of doing more: success and paradoxes in scaling up informal initiatives for disaster risk reduction and climate action. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement 43:3, pages 339-369.
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Samwel Alananga, Charles Lucian & Moses Mpogole Kusiluka. (2015) Significant cost-push factors in owner-built incremental housing construction in Tanzania. Construction Management and Economics 33:8, pages 671-688.
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Gonzalo Lizarralde, Stella Tomiyoshi, Mario Bourgault, Juan Malo & Georgia Cardosi. (2013) Understanding differences in construction project governance between developed and developing countries. Construction Management and Economics 31:7, pages 711-730.
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PaulW. Chan & Christine Räisänen. (2009) Editorial: informality and emergence in construction. Construction Management and Economics 27:10, pages 907-912.
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Giulia Celentano & Guillaume Habert. (2021) Beyond materials: The construction process in space, time and culture in the informal settlement of Mathare, Nairobi. Development Engineering 6, pages 100071.
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G Celentano, J Salcedo Villanueva & G Habert. (2020) Supply chain mapping and stakeholders’ assessment towards the Sustainable Development Goals: the case of the construction sector in the informal settlement of Mathare, Nairobi. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 588:4, pages 042033.
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Eder Martinez, Carolina K. Reid & Iris D. Tommelein. (2019) Lean construction for affordable housing: a case study in Latin America. Construction Innovation 19:4, pages 570-593.
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Aaron Opdyke, Amy Javernick-Will & Matthew Koschmann. (2018) A Comparative Analysis of Coordination, Participation, and Training in Post-Disaster Shelter Projects. Sustainability 10:11, pages 4241.
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Aaron Opdyke, Amy Javernick-Will & Matthew Koschmann. (2018) Household construction knowledge acquisition in post-disaster shelter training. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 28, pages 131-139.
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Dewi Larasati ZR & Anjar Primasetra. (2017) Pengembangan Industri Konstruksi Rumah Prapabrikasi Lokal Berbasis Komunitas (Kasus: Komunitas Kampung Naga). Jurnal Lingkungan Binaan Indonesia 6:2, pages 94-99.
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Gonzalo Lizarralde. (2011) Stakeholder participation and incremental housing in subsidized housing projects in Colombia and South Africa. Habitat International 35:2, pages 175-187.
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