The Effect of Squatter Housing on Income Distribution in Urban Turkey

Cem Baslevent and Meltem Dayoglu
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Cem Baslevent: Department of Economics, Istanbul Bilgi University, Kustepe, Sisli, 80310, Istanbul, Turkey, cbaslevent@bilgi.edu.tr
Meltem Dayoglu: Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara, Turkey, dmeltem@metu.edu.tr
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Urban Studies, 2005, vol. 42, issue 1, 31-45

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of home-ownership on income distribution in Turkey. Making use of raw data from an official income distribution survey which provides information on cash and in-kind incomes of household members and imputed rents for home-owners, it is found that home-ownership has an equalising effect on income distribution in the urban areas of Turkey. This result is attributed to the fact that many low-income families reside in squatter housing built at the outskirts of large cities.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1080/0042098042000309685

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