TY - JOUR
T1 - Condominium to the Country
T2 - The Sprawl of Ownership within Private Local Government in British Columbia
AU - Harris, Douglas C.
AU - Patterson, Guy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of American Bar Foundation.
PY - 2024/5/17
Y1 - 2024/5/17
N2 - As a form of land ownership, condominium enables subdivision and produces local government. Designed to facilitate the production of apartments as distinct parcels of land, ownership within condominium now dominates many urban housing markets. In some jurisdictions, including British Columbia, condominium (labelled strata property) may also be deployed to subdivide land for single-house lots within a structure of private local government. The principal effect of extending condominium to unbuilt land is not to enable subdivision, which is something that was already possible and common, but, rather, to endow groups of single-house lot owners with fiscal capacity and governing authority to assume important aspects of local government. Through an analysis of bare land strata property in British Columbia, we reveal how the condominium form, which brought an architecture of ownership and government from the homeowners association of the American suburbs to the North American city, has spread back from the city into the suburban, exurban, and rural, producing a sprawl of ownership within private local government.
AB - As a form of land ownership, condominium enables subdivision and produces local government. Designed to facilitate the production of apartments as distinct parcels of land, ownership within condominium now dominates many urban housing markets. In some jurisdictions, including British Columbia, condominium (labelled strata property) may also be deployed to subdivide land for single-house lots within a structure of private local government. The principal effect of extending condominium to unbuilt land is not to enable subdivision, which is something that was already possible and common, but, rather, to endow groups of single-house lot owners with fiscal capacity and governing authority to assume important aspects of local government. Through an analysis of bare land strata property in British Columbia, we reveal how the condominium form, which brought an architecture of ownership and government from the homeowners association of the American suburbs to the North American city, has spread back from the city into the suburban, exurban, and rural, producing a sprawl of ownership within private local government.
KW - Property
KW - Condominium
KW - Housing
KW - Land Use
KW - Real Estate
KW - Local Government
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U2 - 10.1017/lsi.2023.14
DO - 10.1017/lsi.2023.14
M3 - Article
SN - 0897-6546
VL - 49
SP - 877
EP - 915
JO - Law & Social Inquiry
JF - Law & Social Inquiry
IS - 2
ER -