Bosena Yirga (PhD)Anteneh Negussie2025-02-212025-02-212024-10-01https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/4193This study examines the impact of urban renewal projects on low-income residents in American Gibi, a neighborhood in Addis Ketema Sub-City, Addis Ababa, and to identify determinant factors of satisfaction level of relocates. The researcher used a mixed research approach and the research is both descriptive and inferential/analytical in type. Both primary and secondary data were gathered for this study. The primary data were collected from relocated site households and secondary data were collected from different journals, books, papers, and other recorded documents. The sample of displaces was selected through stratified random sampling and simple random sampling methods. Data were gathered through questionnaires and in-depth interviews through open-ended and close ended questions. Primary and secondary data were analyzed based on qualitative, descriptive, and inferential analysis methods depending on the type of data to be collected. From this study, the researcher concludes that due to urban renewal projects, relocates lost their social and informal interactions, jobs and locational advantages, and sufficient compensation for their loss. The researcher also concludes that the relocates satisfaction level is determined by variables age, educational status, employment status, transport access, and access to basic infrastructures. To alleviate these problems, the researcher recommended for the concerned body to change the socio economic conditions of relocates, to participate the community, to work on determinant factors of satisfaction level to satisfy the relocates. Keywords: Addis Ababa, urban renewal, low-income householdsenThesis