http://etd.aau.edu.et:80/dspace/handle/123456789/427 Search the Channel search http://etd.aau.edu.et:80/dspace/simple-search http://etd.aau.edu.et:80/dspace/handle/123456789/4369 Title: Self-help cooperative housing Potentials and limitations as a housing delivery option The case of Tana kebele in Bahir Dar <br/> <br/>Authors: Dawod Abdie <br/> <br/>Abstract: Housing the low income households has been one of the critical urban problems in Ethiopian cities due to high rate of urbanization. The same is true in Bahir Dar. The City Administration aimed to achieve one housing unit for one household in 2015 through integrated systems of housing delivery mechanism, including cooperative housing delivery. Even though cooperative housing was proposed as one strategy for housing the low income and Bureau of Cooperative Promotion is organizing housing cooperatives, currently the role of cooperative housing is not well defined. The land allocation for cooperatives was terminated before three years. The increasing growth of squatter settlements and overcrowding manifests the existing housing problem of the city. This calls for the study of potentials and limitations of each housing delivery options. Based on this the thesis set out to identify the potentials and limitations of aided self- help cooperative housing with scheme of core housing for low income households in Bahir Dar. The unit of analysis is the housing process. The focus is on collective ownership, core house provision, collective action and participation. For the depth study of the housing process case study design is selected. All three aided self-help housing cooperatives are selected in Bahir Dar with the criteria of availability of data, self-help concept and cooperative housing for low income households. Since they have the same structure and the same housing development scheme, they were analyzed as one. Core issues are analyzed from data gathered through document study, observational study, photography and interview of 42 households out of 60. The findings of the study identified that collective ownership, collective action, core house provision and participation of low income households are the potentials which create economic and social benefit for the beneficiaries. Absence of use and social mixity, opportunity cost of being involved in collective over private work (free rider problem) and non-flexible core house design were the identified limitations. The findings reveal that self-help cooperative housing has a potential that could be used as an alternative way of mitigating the housing problem of low income households in the city. Based on the findings in the research the recommendations are forwarded with proposal of design typologies in different contexts of the city.