Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing policy
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Housing in African Cities
Author: J. M. DohertyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780903674058
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Housing the Poor in African Cities
Author: Housing Market Dynamics in Africa
Author: El-hadj M. BahPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137597925
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. Some of these factors include the supply and demand for housing finance, land tenure security issues, construction cost conundrum, infrastructure provision, and low-cost housing alternatives. Through detailed analysis, the authors investigate the political economy surrounding the continent’s housing market and the constraints that behind-the-scenes policy makers need to address in their attempts to provide affordable housing for the majority in need. With Africa’s urban population growing rapidly, this study highlights how broad demographic shifts and rapid urbanization are placing enormous pressure on the limited infrastructure in many cities and stretching the economic and social fabric of municipalities to their breaking point. But beyond providing a snapshot of the present conditions of the African housing market, the book offers recommendations and actionable measures for policy makers and other stakeholders on how best to provide affordable housing and alleviate Africa’s housing deficit. This work will be of particular interest to practitioners, non-governmental organizations, private sector actors, students and researchers of economic policy, international development, and urban development.
Housing in African Cities
Author: Margot RubinPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031374088
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This edited collection from across the African continent offers a diverse set of analytical accounts that engage with the urban governance dynamics, drivers and impacts of a wide variety of housing initiatives. These include insights into the relationships between parties and actors undertaking developments, or whose housing activities impact on the city. The book illustrates issues of power distribution, the visions or agendas motivating these actions, and the instruments used to advance them. It considers the rise of mega housing projects; private sector driven residential developments; unobtrusive transformations of existing building stock, establishment and upgrading of informal settlements; and state driven low cost housing schemes. It surfaces the contestation, collaborations and conflicts as well as the power relations that operate within cities and which are made visible on cityscapes. Housing and human settlement scholars as well as those interested in urban politics and governance dynamics in the global south and across the African continent will find much to appreciate in this volume.
Housing and SDGs in Urban Africa
Author: Timothy Gbenga NubiPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9813344245
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
There is a dearth of collections of scholarly works dedicated wholly to African issues, that comes out of the work done by African scholars and practitioners with both African collaborators and from elsewhere. This volume brings together scholarly works and thoughts that cut across and intertwine the tripods-environment-consciousness, socially just development and African development into options that could deliver on the promise of the SDGs. The book project is an initiative of the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development at the University of Lagos, which realized the gap in ground research linking the housing sector with the SDGs in African cities. This book therefore presents chapters that explore the interconnections, interactions and linkages between the SDGs and Housing through research, practice, experience, case-studies, desk-based research and other knowledge media.
Housing Africa's Urban Poor
Author: Philip AmisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429817185
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Originally published in 1990, this book reveals the extent to which petty landlordism is developing not just in the African urban settlements that have sprung up but in government-sponsored low-cost housing estates. The first part of the book traces African governments' changing responses to urban growth since the 1960s. The second presents case studies of housing markets and landlord-tenant relations north and south of the Sahara. The third examines World Bank involvement, and the book ends by considering policy implications.
Traditional Housing in African Cities
Author: Friedrich W. SchwerdtfegerPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Housing the Poor in African Cities: Low-income housing : approaches to helping the urban poor find adequate housing in African cities
Author: Associational Life in African Cities
Author: Arne TostensenPublisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171064653
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The book contains 17 chapters with material from 13 African countries, from Egypt to Swaziland and from Senegal to Kenya. Most of the authors are young African academics. The focus of the volume is the multitude of voluntary associations that has emerged in African cities in recent years. In many cases, they are a response to mounting poverty, failing infrastructure and services, and more generally, weak or abdicating urban governments. Some associations are new, in other cases, existing organizations are taking on new tasks. Associations may be neighbourhood-based, others may be city-wide and based on professional groupings or a shared ideology or religion. Still others have an ethnic base. Some of these organizations are engaged in both day-to-day matters of urban management and more long-term urban development. Urban associations challenge the monopoly of local and central government institutions.
Housing and Urbanization Issues in Africa
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on African AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description