Tenant Houses: A Fully Operational Real Estate Market
This paper addresses the issue associated with the tenant houses located in downtown Santiago. Based on field research, this study identifies new features related to these units: a) this is a latent phenomenon fueled by the presence of a real estate sub-market; b) tenement houses are inhabited by lo...
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| Language: | spa |
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Revista INVI
1993
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| Online Access: | https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62019 |
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| Summary: | This paper addresses the issue associated with the tenant houses located in downtown Santiago. Based on field research, this study identifies new features related to these units: a) this is a latent phenomenon fueled by the presence of a real estate sub-market; b) tenement houses are inhabited by low-income groups that have no access to better housing options and prefer to live in the downtown area rather than in other parts of the city; and c) there are not so many tenement houses and they offer affordable rents, thus becoming a popular rental system that, according to the author of this research, could give rise to a housing policy intended to make up for the housing deficit that affects the country. |
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