Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
CEDESU 2021 2ND INTERNATIONAL CITY AND ECOLOGY CONGRESS, Trabzon, Türkiye, 2 - 03 Aralık 2021, cilt.1, ss.141-151
Provision of affordable housing
is challenging factor of rapid urban developments in the Global South. Addis
Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, has been trying to address the fast
growing housing demand through different schemes of affordable housing. The Integrated
Housing Development Program – IHDP, which was initiated in 2003 by the
government, is a country wide program designed to address the housing issue.
The IHDP has been set on
clearing all slums and contribute for the middle income country target along
with providing affordable housing units. Also, it aimed at creating job
opportunity for the urban youth through the integration of Micro and Small
Enterprises – MSE. The development program has developed a low cost
construction system by applying a standardized prefabrication system specially
developed for the program along with mass housing design approach.
However, variety of
socio-economic problems have started to emerge after the occupation of the
newly developed housing neighborhoods. These are mainly caused by the
disruption of the socio-economic status caused by the relocation and
resettlement of dwellers. These issues include affordability, safety and
security, means of income, lost land, societal organization membership and
waste disposal systems.
With the
data acquired through observation, firsthand experience of the society,
technical manuals, newspapers, survey of dwellers of condominium housing by
UN-Habitat (2017), Ministry of Construction and Urban Development and Central
Statistics Agency of Ethiopia, and literary critiques, this research makes
descriptive analysis of the surveys. From the results, it discusses alternative
approaches within the framework of policy diversification, relocation
strategies and off-grid waste management system that could be integrated in to
the housing program in Addis Ababa.