Housing Conditions Of Condominium Residents in Arada and Gulele Sub-Cities of Addis Ababa
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2007-08
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Housing is the first and most safety need of human beings. It should be accessible to evety
human being as a housing right, but not realized on the ground due to financial
constraints, population pressure with the existing scarce resource, lack of comprehensive
housing policy, scanty supply of housing with excessive demand, and inadequate and
unaffordable supply.
The AACG has been trying to mitigate the housing problem through housing development
program by upgrading and redeveloping the City's slum areas, which was around 80
percent of the City habituated by more than 80 percent of the dwellers with low-income
residents. To implement such type of program is challengeable with low capital and lack
of comprehensive housing policy. Therefore, the housing development program has its
own impacts on the affected groups.
In this study, the researcher investigates the positive and negative impacts of the
condomi-"ium housing development program on the affected groups who have been living
in condominium houses by following Cernea's lRRM The result of the empirical analysis
shows that, the housing development program had both positive and negative impacts on
the respondent households.
Even though the beneficiaries of the program were disrupted, suffered and unsatisfied by
different situations andfacilities, the result oft-test shows that, they were satisfied with the
condominium housing situation considering the previous ones. However, there is one
thing, which is not answered in this study. That is, the sustainability of ownership status
for the low-income residents. So in order to apply the program effectively, there is need to
conduct further research on issues raised in this report such as the need for the
participation of all stakeholders especially those directly related to the program from
planning up to the evaluation stage. Government should also formulate appropriate and
comprehensive housing policies which address the needs of the poor.
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Housing Conditions Of Condominium