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Case study researchers choose between single and multiple case research approaches. The literature recommends single cases for gaining in-depth understanding and multiple cases for acquiring broader understanding. This article presents the unconventional approach of a primary case informed by multiple secondary cases. It suggests that focusing on one case while following some additional secondary cases may, paradoxically and under certain conditions, be a better way of conducting in-depth, single case research. The secondary, or assisting, cases can help the researcher to identify issues to expect, questions to ask, and data to look for in the primary case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores how the construction of housing for lower-middle-class groups is financed in developing countries. Although it focuses on a single case study from Mumbai (previously Bombay), the case suggests that the conventional policy focus on mortgage finance for individual consumers may be insufficient, and that policy makers should also consider the problem of development finance for housing producers, including consumer cooperatives. Second, it indicates that successful financing strategies are likely to involve an overlap of both formal and informal practices. Third, in the documented case the tenants' group succeeded in leveraging the development potential of their land to cross-subsidise its housing costs. However, the paper highlights the difficulties involved and cautions against any policy reliance on such a strategy as a financing panacea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines how institutional pluralism in the delivery of housing can evoke disagreements and conflict between stakeholders based on a case study in Mumbai, India. Description of the Dharavi redevelopment plan; Involvement of a non-government organization in conflict with stakeholders; Benefit from the conflicts under certain conditions.

This paper examines the complexities involved in 'enabling' the provision of housing in developing countries. In conventional thinking the enabling strategy focuses on the ability of the private sector, specifically the 'markets', to deliver housing. Enabling has been promoted as consisting of, primarily, decentralisation, privatisation, deregulation and demand-driven development. The focus of the policy prescriptions is to reduce the 'damaging' involvement of the state. This paper presents evidence from slum redevelopment programmes in Mumbai, India, to demonstrate that enabling is likely to be much more complicated. Paradoxically, enabling housing provision through market mechanisms may require four levels of seeming policy contradictions - both decentralisation and centralisation; both privatisation and public investment; both deregulation and new regulations, and both demand-driven and supply-driven development. In other words, enabling is likely to require a different type of state involvement, not necessarily less state involvement. A complex and more sophisticated role of the state is necessary to provide the institutional support for well functioning property markets, as well as to capture the opportunities high value property markets provide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]