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| Comparative Analysis on Urban Land Delivery System and Housing Policy (The Case of Selected Countries) |
Tekalign Arficho Haeso , Professor Xinhia Lu
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Abstract:
Ethiopia and several other developing countries all over the world are facing grave housing challenges to their citizens. The process of land acquisition and delivery comprises availability of unusable land, affordability of such land, ease of transaction with that land, and security of the owner's right as well as payment of fair compensation for the losers of land. The housing backlog and shortage has extended crisis from time to time. This study was conducted on: comparative analysis on urban land delivery systems and housing policy, the case of 10 selected countries from Asia, Latin America and Africa. Based on the general objective of the study, three specific research objectives were addressed using different documents and related report reviews. The researcher has used a comparative analysis and identified major challenges in the provision of affordable housing in the selected countries (purposively) based on its positive or negative impact to policy responses and then came up with way outs to address the acute shortage of housing in effective and efficient manner. The results of the study portrayed that even though several land delivery system (formal and informal) in the past as well as present time were accompanied to respond the problems of home ownership status of the citizens, but according to the findings of this study, the urban land delivery systems that the governments applied so far has not been brought to the end of the problems of urban land deliver and home ownership rights of the citizens. Therefore, because of poor land delivery and housing development strategies, citizens of many countries including Ethiopia were looking for a shelter constructed by different schemes and these schemes were poorly responding on housing problems and it has led to increasing informal settlement, land speculations by the wealthiest, bias of city development plan and high rate of housing shortages and rental costs are evident. It is largely because of the deficiency of land management and related legal frameworks as well as poor support on the above housing development schemes. Based on the findings of the study, the paper has forwarded recommendations that countries should think and do their home works on revising the land delivery system for housing purpose, strengthen institutional capacity of the municipalities, there should be clear land and housing related legal frameworks, there should be serious follow up and measurements on the high rate of corruption practices related to urban land and housing management, governments should think on different housing delivery schemes to respond on high rate of housing demand.
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