Practice and challenges of residential housing provision in Oromia Region: the case of Sululta Town
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2020-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
This research has been conducted in the Sululta town of Oromia regional State of Ethiopia with
a general objective of investigating the practice, challenges, and major constraints in housing
provision. Thus a review of policy and regulatory as well as opportunities for a better housing
provision in the town have been investigated through purposive and random sampling of a total
of 377 respondents who were selected from the two kebeles of the town. To achieve the objective
of the study both qualitative and quantitative methods of data analysis were used. Descriptive
statistics such as percentage, means, Cross tabulation, graphs, charts, etc. were also used and to
assess the magnitude and direction of the association between the dependent variable of housing
tenure and independent variables with 8 demographic characteristics of the household a
bivariate correlation analysis was used. STATA-12 was used to enter the data into the computer
for analysis.
The Result of the study shows that Sululta Town is faced with the problem of poor housing
provision for urban residents. The analysis of the housing tenure status of the respondents
revealed that a great proportion of respondents do not have their own private houses. The
majority 54.91% of is renters, 22.81% informal settlements, and only 23.34% of the housing
units are owner-occupied. The housing tenure of the respondents is a strong correlation with
income. Despite this, in the study area, the main factors identified as the bottleneck for the
provision of housing include poor access to finance, interference of local brokers in housing
issues, lack of efficiently and effectively using the existing land and supply, the policy problem,
the rapid rate of urbanization and lack of the efforts of urban administration to address the
problem. In addition to these factors, household demographic characteristics such as gender
composition, length of continuous residence in the town and monthly income of the households
affect access to the housing of the respondents in the town. Moreover, income is relatively, strong
correlation, and significant association with housing tenure. The survey result reveals that the
poor housing provision is increasing rental housing prices, affects the socio-economic life of
individuals, forced to evict informal settlement conditional and unconditional time, and being
unable to get adequate rent and formal houses for large family size in the study area.
Therefore, it was recommended that responsible bodies better pay attention to the issue of
improving the current problem of housing provision in the town. It is important to re-design the
program of the lease and implementation, it is better to giving priority for urban poor and
legalized the existing informal settlement to minimize the problem and controlling unplanned
growth of urbanization, it is important to design or make effort to attract involvements of
community, private enterprises, NGO’S and integrated development plan with Addis Ababa
particularly in housing provision for urban residents and it is important to recognize a strategy
that should be included the issue of social and economic development new city in rural areas.
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urbanization, housing, challenges, housing provision, housing policy, affordability