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Housing the Urban Poor in Developing Countries

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  • Dennis A. Rondinelli

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. Governments in developing countries will face increasingly serious problems in providing adequate shelter for the more than 25 million households that will be added to their urban populations by the end of this century A review of the magnitude of their housing deficits discloses the growing need for low‐cost shelter. Public housing, sites‐and‐services, slum upgrading, and government assisted self‐help‐programs have failed to provide sufficient housing to meet the needs of the poor. These must be supplemented by programs that reduce the costs of housing construction and increase the participation of communities, the informal sector, and private enterprise in providing low‐cost housing. Analysis of the results of conventional government housing programs offers little hope of an adequate amelioration of the problem.

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  • Dennis A. Rondinelli, 1990. "Housing the Urban Poor in Developing Countries," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 49(2), pages 153-166, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:49:y:1990:i:2:p:153-166
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1990.tb02269.x
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    3. Dahiru Adamu & Tafida Adamu Ibrahim & Ibahim Abdullahi Sabo & Iliyasu Ibrahim, 2021. "End-Users Housing Requirements in Tumfure Housing Estate in Gombe Metropolis, Nigeria," Traektoriâ Nauki = Path of Science, Altezoro, s.r.o. & Dialog, vol. 7(03), pages 3012-3019, March.
    4. Urmi Sengupta & Brendan Murtagh & Camila D’Ottaviano & Suzana Pasternak, 2018. "Between enabling and provider approach: Key shifts in the national housing policy in India and Brazil," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 36(5), pages 856-876, August.

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