Action/Policy Idea: Sharers

Target Population/Institution

Comments

Source/Reference

Demand Side (but note that Supply and Demand Sides are Intertwined)

Promote Wills or Legacy Arrangements

Sharer stakeholders; Sibling stakeholders; Elderly parents

Aim is to: 1) Preempt disputes between legitimate

stakeholders through pre-death assignment of ownership

2) Provide for clarity of ownership or residency rights of future owners and sharers;

3) to remove obstacles to the incentives

to invest in improvements and additions, etc.

Jiménez & Camargo, 2015;

Ward et al., 2015.

Grajeda, 2015;

Jiménez et al., 2019.

Promote new types of shared ownership

Sharer stakeholders

Condominio familiar;

Patrimonio familiar;

Agreed user rights (usufruct);

Donoso, 2018; Jiménez et al., 2019.

Supply Side

Grants and subsidies

Informal settlement owners and sharers with long tern aspirations to remain on lot

Financial support tied to improving housing especially for 2^nd and 3^rd family units; with options to tie to future ownership (shared or otherwise) rights;

And/or for creating rental opportunities on site (see above) Aim is to improve quality of accommodations especially for 2^nd and 3^rd units while also regularizing future ownership.

Jiménez & Camargo, 2015

Extend regularization and

property registration 1)

Owners

To enable later sub division

and inheritance

Jiménez & Camargo, 2015

Extend regularization and property registration 2)

Owners primarily

Allows for credits and supports to modify the dwelling

Jiménez et al., 2019.