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The Significance of Community Training Centers in Building Affordable Housing and Developing Settlements

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  • Jan Bredenoord

    (International Urban Planner/Housing Researcher, 3823 CL Amersfoort, The Netherlands
    Retired Research Fellow, International Development Studies, Utrecht University, 3584 CB Utrecht, The Netherlands)

  • Joon Park

    (International School of Urban Sciences, University of Seoul, Seoul 02504, Korea)

  • Kyohee Kim

    (Department of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Abstract

This paper examines the visions and the roles of community training centers (CTCs) in community development and housing provision in developing countries from the perspective of assisted self-help housing. It reviews a Korean community center that contributed to community-led self-help housing for low-income groups in the 1970s. It also reviews a few notable CTCs from India, Uganda, Nepal, and three countries in Central America to examine the functions and contributions of the CTCs. It was found that CTCs play a central role in community empowerment and the production of affordable building materials receiving technical or financial assistance from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and governments. The paper makes a compelling case for CTCs by drawing on these exemplary cases to provide a development model that has the potential to facilitate the improvement of the living environment in developing countries.

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  • Jan Bredenoord & Joon Park & Kyohee Kim, 2020. "The Significance of Community Training Centers in Building Affordable Housing and Developing Settlements," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(7), pages 1-22, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:12:y:2020:i:7:p:2952-:d:342577
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