Impact of Building Regulation obligation for Recreational Area in Social Housing in Brazil

Building and Land Use Regulation have a profound impact over housing market. The city of Curitiba, Brazil using these mechanisms require residential constructions to destine from four until twelve square meters per housing unit for Recreational Use exclusively. In that regard this study evaluated the effect of this obligation in Social Housing in terms of sales value and area demand, according to the regulation of the city. A market research was taken, data were categorized and filtered to social housing. The result is that this demand impacts average 17% of the property sales value, which could be transformed in over 7 m² of private area. Considering this and that the primary need of social housing is to guarantee the basic demand of shelter, it is concluded that this regulation must be reconsidered. Keywords: Social Housing; Building Regulations; Recreational Areas.

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978-1-944214-31-9