Abstract
Slums have been part of the urban landscape since the Victorian Era, and, over the years, policies such as public housing, slum upgrading, tenure security, city wide slum removal and other measures were adopted to improve the quality of life of the slum dwellers. In this paper, the evolution of those policies is explored and evaluated, and key policy strategies that need to be adopted at the donor and recipient levels in order to achieve measurable change in slum improvement across the world are suggested.
Highlights
Slums are an integral part of the urban landscape, as they have historically been the only affordable housing solution available to the urban poor
Slum redevelopment policies have evolved with this changing understanding, and in this paper, the authors identify four phases of slum redevelopment policy, which are discussed in detail (Figure 1)
The central and most vocal of criticism of the slum upgrading approach comes from Mike Davis who argues that, under the guise of “helping the poor help themselves”, the state has withdrawn from its historical commitment to provide housing to the urban poor
Summary
Received October 31st, 2013; revised November 30th, 2013; accepted December 7th, 2013.
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