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Self-help housing for the poor
A cross-cultural study
AbstractA study of the strengths and weaknesses of housing action in one locality should help shed light on the problem in a totally different context. This paper shows what New York city's housing dilemma tells us about relevant policies for Third World cities and what New York can learn from the Third World. The inability of New York City to provide decent housing and neighbourhoods, or any housing at all, for the low-income population indicates that good housing is not an automatic feature of ‘development’. Because of the lack of low-income housing in New York, a large number of innovative self-help programmes have been experimented with. Although they are totally insufficient in quantity, they do suggest workable ‘enabling strategies’ that could be applied elsewhere. Studies from several Third World cities are used to suggest that if self-help has not become a major policy for most governments it is not because this process is inappropriate but because it is not given sufficient support.
Self-help housing for the poor
A cross-cultural study
AbstractA study of the strengths and weaknesses of housing action in one locality should help shed light on the problem in a totally different context. This paper shows what New York city's housing dilemma tells us about relevant policies for Third World cities and what New York can learn from the Third World. The inability of New York City to provide decent housing and neighbourhoods, or any housing at all, for the low-income population indicates that good housing is not an automatic feature of ‘development’. Because of the lack of low-income housing in New York, a large number of innovative self-help programmes have been experimented with. Although they are totally insufficient in quantity, they do suggest workable ‘enabling strategies’ that could be applied elsewhere. Studies from several Third World cities are used to suggest that if self-help has not become a major policy for most governments it is not because this process is inappropriate but because it is not given sufficient support.
Self-help housing for the poor
A cross-cultural study
Coit, Katharine (author)
Cities ; 11 ; 115-124
1994-01-01
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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