The Challenges of Residential Land Provisions and Sustainable Land Developments: The Case of Furi Sub-City of Shaggar City
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2024-05-01
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Addis Ababa University
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Access to land for residential housing is a main challenging urban resident in urban centers of developing nations, particularly for low- and medium-income groups. The difficulties and obstacles involved in obtaining land for residential development are the cause of inefficient living conditions, which have an impact on the community's ability to survive. By classifying and ranking the challenge of land provision and its effects on the socioeconomic condition and sustainable development, this study aims to contribute to the ways of overcoming the challenge of land provision in the study area. To fulfill the goal of this investigation, eighteen parameters of land provision challenges, thirteen socioeconomic conditions, and ten parameters of sustainable land developments were prepared, and the data were gathered from experts, employees of land-related local offices, and other interested parties who had an interaction with land provision and were aware of land provision for residential housing and other connected issues. To identify the ranks of the challenges and its effects on socioeconomic condition and sustainable land development relative importance index (RII), factors, correlations and regression analysis were applied. The results showed that availability of large investment and lack of priority and strategies; because of location, broker activities, and high land values; weak institutional performance and high residential land demand; and the unwillingness of farmers and their leaders’ factors are the most influencing factors in the process of land provision for residential housing. These influencing factors have a strong effect on socioeconomic conditions as well as on sustainable land development in the study area. Finally, the research recommends the city’s authority should develop a strategy on how to meet residential land demand and supply, encourage farmers on land transfer procedures, develop and change the lives of farmers, and increase the land compensation and payment process to minimize associated factors.
Key words: Residential Housing, Land Provision, Land Development, furi sub city