Housing the Ultra-Poor: Theory and Practice in Haiti

Fass, Simon M.

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“…A woman can cook in her kitchen and sell meals in the market or at street corners, and a family store or workshop can be located at home. Such activities are highly prevalent in cities where self-employment in the informal sector is high (Fass, 1987). In the sample, about a quarter of households had at least one household member who used the home for income-generation activities, including the preparation of food to sell in the house, to shops, in the market, or in the street (38.9 per cent); manufacturing something other than food, to sell to shops, in the market, in the streets or on order (for example, furniture, cement blocks, soap, clothing, shoes, and artifacts) (13.9 per cent); operating a shop in the house or yard (14.6 per cent); repairing in the house or yard (e.g.…”

Section: Housing Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moving or Improving: Housing Adjustment Choice in Kumasi, Ghana

Sinaï¹

2001

Housing Studies

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This paper examines housing adjustment choice of households in Kumasi, Ghana. When a household is dissatis ed with its housing, it can choose to move elsewhere, improve the current dwelling, or neither. Using data from a 596-household survey collected in 1996, logistic regressions are used to examine the determinants of this choice. Results suggest that housing satisfaction and quality, plus some household characteristics, in uence the choice of undertaking housing adjustment (including moving and improving). When a household decides to adjust, factors affecting the choice between moving and improving are housing conditions, tenure, household characteristics, and using housing for income generation through informal-sector activities.

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Section: Housing Variablesmentioning

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Moving or Improving: Housing Adjustment Choice in Kumasi, Ghana

Sinaï¹

2001

Housing Studies

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“…Recognizing the link between the informal sector and future policies, the U.S. Agency for International Development's Regional Housing and Urban Development Office for the Caribbean initiated four studies on how the poor house themselves in that region. This note summarizes the findings of two completed studiesfor Jamaica (Mcleod, 1987) and St. Vincent/ Dominica (Ishmael, 1987) -and preliminary observations from two others still underwayfor Haiti (as proposed by Fass, 1987) and for Barbados (as proposed by Brathwaite, 1987). It then draws some implications for donor strategies and offers examples of the way one country (Jamaica) is adapting its policies in light of a greater understanding of today's housing market realities.…”

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Informal Sector Shelter in the Caribbean*

Kingsley

1989

Rev Urban & Reg Develop

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“…The role of the housing sector in general has shifted remarkably from the narrow perspective of housing as an item of basic unproductive consumption, to the wider perspective that acknowledges the positive impacts of housing on increased productivity, both on an individual and national basis (Ishmael, 1988). Newer paradigms of the late 1980s include what Fass (1987) calls the "household firm," where the unit is functioning productively, e.g., as a factory, workplace, store, etc., in activities that highlight the importance of housing through its intersected linkages with the wider economy (Fass, 1987).…”

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Explorations into the Characteristics, the Determinants of Production, and the Impact of Land Policies on the Informal Housing Sector in Alexandria, Egypt

Araby¹

2000

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This study investigates the housing characteristics and the detenninants of housing production of the informal housing sector in Alexandria, Egypt. It also examines the impact ofland policies on the development of the informal housing sector. Informal housing, by definition, is constructed and acquired outside the legal procedure of land and building registration and without the necessary permissions and approvals. Therefore, there is a little knowledge about it, and its role in the housing market could be underestimated. The aim of this research is to enhance the factual knowledge about informal housing as a basis for future policy development.The findings of this research, based on data collected from a field study conducted in four informal settlements in Alexandria in 1991, include the following:1. Macro-economic, political, and social structures accelerated the emergence and the development of informal housing settlements, which occurred rapidly during and after times of economic and political crises. Informal settlements are heterogeneous and it is not evident that informalhousing is synonymous with marginal housing for poor people.3. Informal settlements have low levels of public utilities and infrastructure.4. Income, household size, age of household head, and tenure status of the household are the major variables that explain different patterns of housing consumption and expenditure among informal households.

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Housing the Ultra-Poor: Theory and Practice in Haiti

Cited by 12 publications

References 2 publications

Moving or Improving: Housing Adjustment Choice in Kumasi, Ghana

Moving or Improving: Housing Adjustment Choice in Kumasi, Ghana

Informal Sector Shelter in the Caribbean*

Explorations into the Characteristics, the Determinants of Production, and the Impact of Land Policies on the Informal Housing Sector in Alexandria, Egypt

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