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    An Assessment of Urban Housing Supply and Affordability in Jimma town: with special reference to Condominium Housing.
    (Addis Ababa University, 2010-06) Alemu, Habte; Abebe, Mulugeta (PhD)
    This study has been conducted in Jimma town of ONRS with the general objective of assessing urban housing supply and its affordability with special reference to condominium housing. It also attempted to identify the factors which affected affordably condominium housing supply and local residents to afford for condominium housing in the town as well as to assess whether the condominium housing supply can solve the problems of urban housing for the urban poor. Data for this research were collected mainly through a survey of 180 households (120 households from non condominium residents and 60 households from condominium housing resident respondents) and analyzed using descriptive statistics and SPSS 15. The study found that, supplying of standard low cost housing for low and middle income groups are affected by high cost of local constructional materials, low level of income the majority of the residents, high housing costs and low capacity of the majority of the residents to afford for condominium housing in the study area. Beneficiaries of condominium housing were on average, those who were classified as high and middle income categories of the residents. The study also showed that, condominium housing beneficiaries are better off in terms of both mean monthly income and saving than the non condominium housing residents. Household with higher income categories are also those with higher monthly saving than the lower income categOly. As a result there was strong correlation between household income and saving with r =0.621 (**). This showed that, household of higher income can save higher amount of their income that enables them to afford standard condominium housing. Some of the major constraints for the low and middle income groups to afford for condominium hal/sing were low level of their income, high housing costs per meter square, and high burden of down payments and lack of access to housing subsidies. On the other hand, the main constraints of the implementers to provide affordable condominium housing were untimely completion of the project works, lack of well trained man power in the constructional sector, lack of qualified contractors and the high transportation cost of the constructiollal materials. The study also showed that, there is no special attention given to low income groups and female headed households to be the owner of condomillium housing units. Many condominium housing residents are satisfied with the services provided at the condominium housing sites and the quality of the housing units than their previous residential housing units. The overall analysis also indicated that, condominium housing projects are undertaken in Jimllla town without considering the capacity of low and middle income groups of the town residents to afford for condominium housing. Analysis in general also showed that, condominium housing project in the study area were regionally guided program and that it did not take in to account the local situation of a given area. This contributed to the affordability problems of the local people for the condominium housing units cOllstructed ill the study area. The study also showed that, the intended objectives of condominium housing programs to provide 60 percent of the condominium housing units for low and middle income groups and 30 percent of the housing unit for female headed households has not been well applied in to the study area and the developers of condominium housing are far from achieving the intended objectives.