Elizabeth Johnson on Fixing São Paulo’s Housing Deficit
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As urbanization continues to grow worldwide, affordable housing is a rare commodity in many cities. São Paulo, South America’s biggest city, has gained over 2 million new residents in the past decade alone. Elizabeth Johnson heads Brazil research at TS Lombard and has been studying São Paulo’s latest attempt at strengthening its housing strategy. In this podcast, Johnson says the city looked to its largely abandoned downtown core to address its housing woes. Transcript
Read the article in the IMF's Finance and Development Magazine
ELIZABETH JOHNSON is director of Brazil research at TS Lombard, a global macroeconomic consultancy.
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