Abstract
The abuse in public land assets with no particular effort to renew it, and the implementation of Law 25/901 have led to a dizzying rise in land values that continue to affect urban land on a sustainable level. The following situation is combined with the scarcity or even absence of varied social housing2, which affected directly the conditions of access to land assets in the city of Khenifra and Morocco in general. Today, housing costs are rising faster than household income levels. This situation has resulted in the development of a group of housing cooperatives that play a dual role of collecting and encouraging savings, carrying out subdivisions and infrastructure construction meanwhile. The birth of this self-help housing type in Khenifra dates back to 1993, when a first housing cooperative called Al Arz, initiated by a group of teachers, laid the foundations for a practice that would later become a sustainable phenomenon that impeded the city’s urban planning and governance.
Highlights
The abuse in public land assets with no particular effort to renew it, and the implementation of Law 25/901 have led to a dizzying rise in land values that continue to affect urban land on a sustainable level
The following situation is combined with the scarcity or even absence of varied social housing2, which affected directly the conditions of access to land assets in the city of Khenifra and Morocco in general
In Morocco, the housing cooperative is labeled as the Amicale in French or Widadiya in Arabic, which is different from Housing cooperative in Europe or USA, referred to as Home Clubs6
Summary
A housing cooperative is a collective movement or a collective action to achieve a common goal in the best conditions of performance and efficiency It is interested in housing works with the cheapest prices to improve the well-being of its shareholders. If this movement has experienced a real expansion over the last decade, summoning up more shareholders to look for housing with the lowest costs to the various segments of the population (DEP, 2005). It prevents, to a large extent, the proper spatial organization aimed at promoting the well-being of all the population. The new phenomenon impedes the process of urban planning, unveiling the veil upon the state’s inability to carry out clear and pertinent policies on urban land production and protection
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