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The city of Addis Ababa is burdened with both political and socio-economic activities of the country. People are flooding from all over the nation for employment, education, business and other reasons. Providing affordable houses for the rapidly increasing demand has become a challenge. It is demanding a solution more than building houses in the city. Even building houses by itself has its own bottlenecks such as gaps in project management and financial access. The integrated housing development program has brought some important insights. It was successful to some extent of its objectives. However, it lags far behind from the soaring demand of Addis Ababa residents for affordable housing. If continues in the same way or worse, the program won’t be relevant anymore to benefit the poor and even the middle-income community members. The heavy burden of affordable housing provision can never be alleviated by whatever good done in the city. In contrary, the investment in the city is attracting more people and hence more demand, for the vicious circle to continue. Thus, all stakeholders need to assume their responsibility for robust, integrated and nationwide effort, so as to guide urbanization for its optimal benefit. This paper analyzes the practices and prospects of affordable housing in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. At the end, it proposed recommendations that are drawn from the research findings.
The end of the commodity super cycle in 2014 hit Sub-Saharan economies hard, sending economic growth to a two-decade low by 2016 as prices of crude oil, commodities, and other African exports fell dramatically. In addition, global financial factors reduced the interest of international investors in the region. Despite the recent economic drag, Africa is a rapidly expanding market that represents significant economic opportunity for private enterprises and investors around the world. The region’s economic potential is about more than recovering commodity prices. Other forces are at work, including favorable demographic trends, economic reforms, infrastructure investment, buoyant services sectors, and strong agricultural production. Africa’s demographics are unique and brimming with potential. In an aging world, the region has a young and growing population. Rapid urbanization is expected to double the population of cities within 25 years, raising hopes for the productivity, innovation, and economic diversification that such trends have brought to other regions. The overall climate for business continues to improve, as African reforms tracked in the World Bank Group’s Doing Business annual survey continue to rise. The growth of local capital markets, though still nascent in most countries, continues apace across the region. All in all, private enterprises and investors that are prepared to take advantage of these trends and serve Africa’s burgeoning consumer classes stand poised to tap new markets and reap significant gains.
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Although Ethiopia is one of the lowest urbanized countries in the world, with 80 percent of its people still living in the rural areas, it has been experiencing one of the most rapid urbanization processes in recent years. Living with Urban Environmental Health Risks examines the extent and nature of environmental problems in urban areas in Ethiopia and their impact on health. It points to the economic and political causes that underlie many of the urban problems.
Without looking at the issue of land there can be no meaningful discussion on how to solve the problems of housing for the poor in our cities and towns. Administrative and legal blockages such as government procedures, over-bureaucratization, transfer difficulties, etc. have been the major constraints of access to land for housing in urban areas of developing countries. Consequently, the urban poor are unable to obtain land by legal means or they are unable to afford such land on market prices. Such common problems are administrative and technical due to gaps created by policies, coupled with the lack of understanding of issues by people in power. In sub-Saharan Africa particularly, the challenges and issues of access to land for urban housing are urbanization, urban poverty, corruption in land sector and inadequate institutional capacity of land administration. Sub-Saharan African countries need fundamental reform in the policy instruments in order to avoid the urban poor to be further impoverished.
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