FROM VISIBLE INFORMALITY TO SPLINTERED INFORMALITIES : Reflections on the Production of ‘Formality’ in a Moroccan Housing Programme

This incremental housing programme combines resources from participating families with traditional joint savings schemes and micro-credit to help those who have no access to formal credit to build new homes or improve their existing accommodation. Families are involved in the design process of their homes and training is provided in self-help construction methods. The construction process is phased to avoid families becoming financially overstretched. The consolidation of community organisation and solidarity, the empowerment of women and development of savings capacity are important elements of this well-established programme that has to date funded the construction and/or improvement of over 800 homes in the state of Veracruz, Mexico.

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Strengthening Community Initiatives, Building Partnerships Opp-Rti Sanitation and Housing Programme, Pakistan

Open House International ◽

10.1108/ohi-04-2005-b0012 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 30 (4) ◽

pp. 51-55

Author(s):

Perween Rahman

Keyword(s):

Government Policy ◽

Informal Settlement ◽

Pilot Project ◽

Poor People ◽

Community Initiatives ◽

Self Help ◽

And Training ◽

Housing Programme

The Orangi Pilot Project-Research and Training Institute's (OPP-RTI) work is based on the observation that poor people everywhere when faced by problems do not sit idle, but take initiatives, from lobbying to self help, be it for housing, infrastructure, education, security, health or employment. Some technical and organisational guidance and in some cases, credit is needed to strengthen people's work leading to confidence building and a process of partnerships in development. What began from supporting self-help sewers and housing in the informal settlement of Orangi in Karachi has now extended to many cities and sectors, influencing government policy.

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CHAPTER XIX. A HOUSING PROGRAMME

Social Planning for Canada ◽

10.3138/9781487583590-023 ◽

1975 ◽

pp. 451-463

Keyword(s):

Housing Programme

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Issues of Large-scale Dam Resettlement and Rehabilitation: Case of Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh

Indian Journal of Public Administration ◽

10.1177/0019556119873444 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 65 (4) ◽

pp. 848-868

Author(s):

Aseem Mishra

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Public Authorities ◽

New Town ◽

The Past ◽

Power Stations ◽

The Town ◽

Recent Policy ◽

Large Scale Project ◽

Different Parts ◽

Housing Programme

Large chunks of land have been acquired in different parts of India for large-scale infrastructure projects, such as dams, power stations, etc., in the past. The Bhakra Dam project, being one such large-scale project executed immediately after the Independence, displaced thousands of families without having any proper rehabilitation mechanism in place. The old Bilaspur town (OBT) was part of land acquired for construction of the reservoir for Bhakra Dam, known as Gobind Sagar Lake. The new Bilaspur township was established to rehabilitate families originally living in the OBT. Presently, second or third generation of these families are living on these allotted plots in the new town. This article is an attempt to unfold the flaws in the undertaken rehabilitation policy which has led to unplanned and haphazard development in the town as well as created problems for both oustees and public authorities. These problems continue to persist in present times also, thereby limiting the citizens to avail benefits of the recent policy for regularisation of encroachments and the newly launched housing programme—Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.

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Village Vand, District Dhulera

Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers ◽

10.1177/0256090919880206 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 43-60 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Keyword(s):

Corrective Measures ◽

Deserving Poor ◽

The Government ◽

Housing Programme

Vand village in Dhulera district is the setting for this case on the implementation of the government housing programme for weaker sections. A young Assistant Collector finds that the newly constructed huts had collapsed (:liter the first rains. He asks the Sarpanch, who had improperly been awarded the construction contract, to rebuild the huts at his own cost. The Assistant Collector also discovers that the Sarpanch, with the connivance of the Tehsildar, had managed to get prosperous villagers listed as allottees instead of the deserving poor. The corrective measures that the Assistant Collector initiates, with the help of the Police Patil, meet with resistance. Before the case is resolved, the Assistant Collector is transferred on promotion. Soon thereafter, the Police Patil is falsely implicated by the Sarpanch in a murder case. Village Vand, District Dhulera, contributed by an lAS officer who wishes to remain anonymous, raises questions on the strategies administrators should adopt to reach the benefits of government programmes to targetted groups, adequacy of powers delegated to administrators, role of development functionaries in equityoriented programmes, and the involvement of beneficiaries in the process of implementation.

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‘Farmers on notice’: the threat faced by Weimar Berlin's garden colonies in the face of the city's Neues Bauen housing programme

Urban History ◽

10.1017/s0963926812000053 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 263-284 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

MARK HOBBS

Keyword(s):

Urban Development ◽

Historical Development ◽

Urban Expansion ◽

New Developments ◽

Weimar Germany ◽

The Face ◽

English Speaking ◽

Negative Impacts ◽

Housing Estates ◽

Housing Programme

ABSTRACT:The Neues Bauen programme of urban development in Weimar Germany is best known amongst English-speaking historians for its modern housing estates, including those built by Bruno Taut in Berlin. Less well known are the negative impacts of this programme, particularly the displacement of thousands of garden colonies from the outskirts of towns and cities, which were cleared to make way for new developments. This article focuses on the historical development of the garden colonies in Berlin, and the threat they faced from urban expansion during the Weimar era.

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