| dc.creator | Temple, Nelle W. | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-07T12:10:27Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-07T12:10:27Z | |
| dc.date | 1974-03 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-10T12:57:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-10T12:57:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 10-11-12 | |
| dc.identifier | Temple, Nelle W. (1974) Housing preferences and policy in Kibera, Nairobi. Discussion Paper 196, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/559 | |
| dc.identifier | 317787 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/1903 | |
| dc.description | This paper reports data on housing and housing preferences
gathered in a random sample surrey of adults living in Kibera,
Nairobi in June-Juiy 1972. Firsts brief background information
on the Kibera settlement is given, together with description of
Old Kibera housing and the three recent National Housing Corporation
estates which are the first stage in the eventual total redevelops
meat of the area. Secondly, the sociological characteristics
of owner-related and tenant-related adult residents of Old and New
Kibera are summarised. Thirdly, their responses to various questions
on housing preferences (e.g., willingness to pay higher rent, whether they could afford to buy a house in a new estate, the
preferred design, location and facilities of housings, whether
they would prefer renting or buying) are analysed in terms of
some characteristics that might influence preferences. Fourthly,
the impact of redevelopment at Kibera is considered in terms of
the number and types of people who are likely to be displaced and the
equity of various ways of dealing -with resettlement of the Nubian
and the poorer tenan population. The principal conclusion
is that a large number of low-income people are likely to be more
ill-housed after the redevelopment than before, even though many
of them would be willing to pay the economic rent of decent
low-cost permanent-quality accomodation. Public housing agencies
should compensate for the demolition of low-income housing (when it makes
way for middle-income housing)by replacing it with units of £500-1000
either at Kibera or elsewhere in Nairobi, so that the city is not left
with a bigger housing shortfalls relative to demand, than before
the redevelopment program. The survey results are presented in detail
in the tables for the benefit of other researchers and policy-makers. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Discussion Papers;196 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.subject | Economic Development | |
| dc.title | Housing preferences and policy in Kibera, Nairobi | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
