Shelter issues and solutions in Hawassa

Project report
, 8 pages
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10871IIED.pdf
Language:
English
Published: January 2019
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Product code:10871IIED

As Hawassa’s population expands rapidly to accommodate thousands of new workers in the Industrial Park - a vast Special Economic Zone run by the Ethiopian Industrial Parks Development Corporation - demand for shelter is acute. With no obvious solution in hand, the city’s residents and authorities are - by default - experimenting with different shelter models. These range from cooperative housing associations and Public Private Partnerships at the ‘formal’ end of the scale, to incentivising construction of additional bedrooms (microfinance-funded incremental housing units) and rapidly expanding informal settlements at the other. Meanwhile, as a new political settlement is forged nationally and locally, there are real opportunities to make shelter a priority issue. In this dynamic context, housing and urban development policy - including equitable compensation for re-locations, construction of affordable housing, and citizenstate dialogue - could constitute a major contribution to a new social policy.

Cite this publication

Grant, E., Desta, G., Admassie, Y. and Stevens, S. (2019). Shelter issues and solutions in Hawassa. .
Available at https://www.iied.org/10871iied