Problems of Gaining Access to Housing Land by Government Employees and Factory Workers in Gondar Town
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2002-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to assess the problems of gaining access to
housing land in Gondar town with particular emphasis on the experience of
government employees and factory workers.
To achieve this objectives sample government employees and factory workers
were selected using two-stage stratified sampling method. Questionnaire and relevant
documents were used to gather information pertinent to the study. Percentages, ratios
and coefficient of correlation were used in analysing the collected data.
The result show that Gondar is faced with a substantial problem of housing
shortage. On the average 6.0 percent of the total households in Gondar town have no
access to either owned or rented private residential unit. Inaddition there is a
considerably noticeable level of overcrowding. The responses of the government
employees and factory workers indicate the presence of overcrowding in Kefitegna One
and Kefitegna Three.
The problem of housing shortage in Gondar is aggravated by the difficulties of
the residents in gaining access to housing land in the town. Marriage, household size
and income were found to have influence on gaining access to housing land by the
respondents. Lack of spatial integration of the new residential sites with other
locations in the town, housing standards, the precondition set in the approval of the
supply of land, delays in the provision of land and the nature of the town's relief were
also found to have an effect on gaining access to housing land in Gondar.
On the basis of the findings the study recommends the need for increasing, as
much as possible, the supply of land for those who are in need of constructing their
own shelter by alloting the existing vacant lands in the already built up areas with
reasonable price, by providing the basic infrastructural services in the new residential
sites, by revising the current housing standards and the preconditions set in the process
of supplying land and by participating the public in matters of housing land
andhousingconstruction
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Geography and Environmental Studies