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Yazarlar: Tansı ŞENYAPILI

Konular:-

Anahtar Kelimeler:Squatter housing,Transformation,Rent,“build and sellers”,Pillaging

Özet: Urban transformation has lately been one of issues high on Turkey’s agenda. This study discusses that in the case of transformation of Yıldız neighborhood from squatter housing to apartment housing stock involves unjust sharing of rent which was quite high because of extremely advantageous location of the area. This high rent should have been returned to the public, but instead it was pillaged by squatter house owners and the “build and sellers”, the latter receiving the so called “lions share”. So while in the formal housing sector the values of property and land increased at a comparatively slower and in general predictable rate, those who had invaded or bought vacant land for small amounts in Yıldız neighborhood, today are in possession of far higher property and land values, due to the fact that the governments failed to pursue and  control the implementation process of the laws they issued and/or failed to act as intermediary in the process of transformation leaving the share of rent which should have been extracted in the name of the public in the hands of the squatter house owners and “build and sellers”. So this is why the story of transformation of Yıldız squatter house neighborhood may be considered as an examplary model for urban planners.  

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