Investigation of informal housing challenges and issues: experiences from slum and squatter of Lahore

Malik, Sana; Roosli, Ruhizal; Tariq, Fariha

doi:10.1007/s10901-019-09669-9

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“…Housing is a vital issue in the developing world, and around 70% of urban population lives in informal settlements (Malik et al, 2020;UN-Habitat, 2016). In South Asia, primary cities 6 and secondary cities 7 of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, are facing various urban challenges, e.g., population pressure on infrastructure, housing, basic services and environment.…”

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“…Khan et al, 2016). However, the variable of housing shows a significant positive impact, may indicate the development of informal housing, and rising number of housing schemes around the cities (Malik et al, 2020;UN-Habitat, 2016).…”

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“…With the immense rise in growth of cities, costs of basic utilities, administrative services and security arrangements, also rise. It clearly affects the sustainability of urban development, and necessitates strategies for urban growth with emphasis on shift towards development of secondary cities (Ahmed & Ishrat, 2020;Malik et al, 2020).…”

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An empirical investigation of socio-economic impacts of agglomeration economies in major cities of Punjab, Pakistan

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Agglomeration economies are the external benefits earned from clustering of industries and people in cities. The study assumes unbridled clustering of population in emerging urban agglomerations turning economies into diseconomies. This study empirically investigates the heterogeneous socioeconomic impacts of agglomeration economies in selected cities of Punjab, Pakistan, from 1998 to 2018, using the Pooled Mean Group and the Mean Group techniques of Panel ARDL. Agglomeration economies are determined by population density, number of registered factories, employment size, and housing, in the cities of Punjab. The study designed four indices for socioeconomic conditions using principal component analysis. These include: educationindex, healthcare-index, water & sanitation-index, and economic conditions-index. Research findings reveal pressures of high population density, unemployment, and costly housing on educational & healthcare facilities, poor sanitation & waste management, in cities of Punjab, Pakistan. The study suggests that policy makers and urban planners to develop short term and long term policies and development plans for villages and secondary cities to uplift wellbeing of the local population. Nonetheless, cities need to decentralize for sustainable development and management.

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An empirical investigation of socio-economic impacts of agglomeration economies in major cities of Punjab, Pakistan

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“…The fast-growing urbanization has consistently been a distinctive characteristic of the process of development and has almost been continuously accompanying by the similarly fast growth of informal settlements, squatter settlements, slums, and other uncontrolled settlements (Asian Development Bank and Inter-American Development Bank, 2014;Malik et al, 2020). Slums had always been considered an essential component of cities globally since the outgrowth of urbanization and cities of Pakistan is not an exceptional case; the slums are locally known as Katchi abadis.…”

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“…The government rehabilitated the slums using the three concepts application of Urban Renewal, which includes slums Up-gradation at the present site in existing form, Slums relocation to the Model Urban Shelter Project (MUSP), and Slums Up-gradation at the site in the form of planned plots. In comparison, the rest of the slum settlements are unauthorized or illegal and faced eviction or demolition over time (Malik et al, 2020). The current study attempts to investigate the outcomes of several government initiatives for the improvement of urban infrastructure and the redevelopment of slum areas.…”

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Net Benefits of Urban Slums Redevelopment Policies on the Value of Adjacent Residential Property

Hussain

Zou

2021

International Journal of Strategic Property Management

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Over time, the government of Pakistan introduced several strategies to deal with the issue of slums in its capital city, Islamabad. Contrary to the traditional strategies that primarily focus on the tenure security of occupants, the strategy of slum redevelopment is more composite. It involves the up-gradation of slums in their existing sites as well as the demolition of slums from the posh areas. The present study is first to empirically investigates the outcomes of the slums redevelopment policies on the value of adjacent residential properties. Using a rental valuation based hedonic price model, the study examined the spillover effects of an urban slum up-gradation and eviction projects on the nearby housing values. The results show that the redevelopment of slums reduces the adverse effects on residential value. It is essential for the urban planners to cautiously include the slum redevelopment projects spillover effects on the adjacent property value in different geographical locations, to maximize the net positive effects of improvements on the neighborhood.

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What Do Brokers Provide for Urban Slums?

Shami

2024

J of Intl Development

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Rapid urbanisation in developing countries has often resulted in slums with minimal public goods provision, where the poor rely on clientelist networks to provide for their basic needs. Using household‐level data, this paper is the first to empirically document how political clientelism operates in Pakistani slums. It finds that urban brokers, unlike their rural counterparts, are unable to claim credit for public goods provision. Instead, they provide personalised and highly targeted services – such as dispute resolution and assistance with documentation. Moreover, unlike traditional clientelism, urban networks are found to be problem‐solving and welfare‐enhancing for slum dwellers.

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Investigation of informal housing challenges and issues: experiences from slum and squatter of Lahore

Cited by 33 publications

References 27 publications

An empirical investigation of socio-economic impacts of agglomeration economies in major cities of Punjab, Pakistan

An empirical investigation of socio-economic impacts of agglomeration economies in major cities of Punjab, Pakistan

Net Benefits of Urban Slums Redevelopment Policies on the Value of Adjacent Residential Property

What Do Brokers Provide for Urban Slums?

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