urban slums and incremental housing program
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Presentation on Incremental Housing Program for low income communitiesTRANSCRIPT
Urban Slums and Katchi Abadis…
Incremental Housing Program
Khuda Ki Basti,
Hyderabad,
Karachi
Lahore
Urban Growth and Housing
Need in Pakistan
•Current backlog of 8-9 million housing units.
•More than 300, 000 housing units needed per year.
•35% of urban population live in slums
•50% urban population lives in one room houses
Public Sector and Housing
(i) Affordability
(ii) Inappropriate Targeting
(iii) Allotment – Handing over Time Lag
(iv) Complicated Procedures
(v) No Social Services
Informal Sector and Housing
(i) Simple Process
(ii) Occupation of State Land
(iii) Handing Over is Easy
(iv) Affordability
(v) Compatible with Sociology of the Poor
Sequence is Important
Type of
housing
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4
Conventional
style housing
Land Infrastructure Housing People
Site &
services
Land Infrastructure People Housing
Incremental
housing
Land People Housing Infrastructure
Ideal solution People Land Housing Infrastructure
Incremental Housing -easily replicable: it is simple -sustainable: community is involved -- ownership: access to tenured land -- affordable because it is self financing
IMPORTANT FEATURES
• Established on private land
• Executed purely by NGOs
• Financial support (loan) for purchase of
land provided by a financial institution
• Provision of built up units
• Facility of house building / purchase loan
by HBFC & AKHUWAT