Self-help Housing Research Articles

Pathways to assisted self-help housing: the evolution of Mexico’s housing governability system

This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/ Assisted self-help housing is a process whereby people are actively involved in the decision-making of their homes’ consolidation, receiving tools to better manage resources in building them. While such support is embedded within urban and regional systems, evolving forms of state intervention have received little attention in the literature. In this article, we focus on federal assisted self-help housing programmes in Mexico, where this approach became formalised by the early 2000s. Recent governments positioned assisted self-help housing – at least on paper – as key for Mexico’s housing agenda. What we term Mexico’s housing governability system has continuously evolved, yet its capacity to address housing needs is challenged. We show that policy and institutional change in Mexico reflect a continuing pathway over several decades to include assisted self-help policies in the housing governability system. We highlight the nonlinear nature of policy development and the paradoxes of formalising flexible selfhelp approaches.

‘Housing’ as Christian Social Practice in African Cities: Centering the Urban Majority Theologically

Decent, affordable housing and secure housing tenure remain elusive for Africa’s urban majority. The urban majority is expected to live in self-help housing, reflected in the fact that 62% of African urban dwellers live in urban informal settlements. The inability to access safe, decent, and secure housing, and the reality that Africa’s urban majority is perpetually precarious, have a severe impact on Africa’s urban households and the well-being of individuals, families, and neighborhoods. This article articulates housing as a critical and urgent Christian social practice in African cities—an extension of the church’s pastoral and missional concern. It considers housing both as a product and a process: people need housing to live secure lives; yet, the process of housing is as critical as the outcome. It then proposes housing, as a Christian social practice, being engaged in (i) supporting precarious households; (ii) preventing homelessness; (iii) creating housing; (iv) supporting rights-based land and housing movements; and (v) centering housing pastorally–liturgically. The article grounds itself in Jean-Marc Ela’s insistence on God’s presence ‘in the hut of a mother whose granary is empty’ and in Letty Russell’s ‘household of freedom’.

Peran Mediasi Kepuasan pada Pengaruh Komunikasi Internal dan Perilaku Menyimpang Terhadap Kinerja Pegawai

The purpose of this research is to examine and analyze the effect of internal communication and workplace deviant behaviour on employee performance through direct and indirect job satisfaction. The research was conducted on Self-Help Housing Stimulant Assistance (BSPS) activities at the Housing and Settlement Area Office of Central Maluku Regency. The type of data used is qualitative data. Data was collected through a questionnaire to 47 respondents.The data analysis technique uses statistical analysis using the outer model analysis test, inner model analysis test, and hypothesis testing. Data processing using SmartPLS 3. The results showed that: (1) internal communication has no direct effect on employee performance, (2) direct internal communication has a positive and significant effect on job satisfaction, (3) workplace deviant behavior has a negative and significant effect on job satisfaction directly, (4) workplace deviant behavior has a negative and significant effect on employee performance, (5) job satisfaction has a positive and significant effect on employee performance, (6) job satisfaction is a mediating variable for the indirect effect of internal communication on employee performance, and (7) job satisfaction is a variable mediating the indirect effect of workplace deviant behavior on employee performance.

Satisfaction of Livable House Assistance Recipients with the Implementation of the Self-Help Housing Stimulant Assistance Program

The house is one of the primary needs that must be met by Indonesian people who do not meet livable standards. One of the efforts to be carried out in the infrastructure section, aims so that people get a decent place to live. To realize having a livable house must be planned and prepared properly. This research is reviewed from the problem of many houses that do not yet have decent housing standards. The Government's Self-Help Housing Stimulant Assistance (BSPS) is intended to encourage and increase the self-sufficiency of low-income people in improving the quality of their homes, as seen from the quality of roofs, floors and walls of the house along with infrastructure, public facilities and facilities that meet health, safety, comfort requirements. and bathroom facilities. In the BSPS program as an alternative to poverty alleviation policies by providing direct material assistance for the housing construction process. Based on the intent of the BSPS program objectives according to the BSPS program implementation team in Indonesia, especially in Rembang Regency, the aim of the BSPS program is to improve the quality of life of low-income people to obtain livable housing. that most people respond well to the BSPS program in Japrejo Village and Sumberejo Village Recipients of the Self-Help Housing Stimulant Assistance Program (BSPS), however, it is not uncommon for people to refuse due to limited funds which are considered insufficient. Satisfaction of building recipients after receiving assistance from Self-Help Housing Stimulant Assistance (BSPS) in obtaining assistance. Construction/improvement of houses for low-income people to ensure their quality meets the livable requirements of the BSPS program where assessment is carried out in the Structural and Non-Structural sections according to the house criteria livable

Computer Assessment Test at the Association of Indonesian Independent Housing Experts with Waterfall Model

The Association of Indonesian Self-Help Housing Experts (PERAPSI) is a government organization that was just inaugurated in 2020 with an official certificate from the Ministry of Law and Human Rights of the Republic of Indonesia (KEMENKUMHAM) under the Directorate of Public Housing, Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR).The Association of Indonesian Self-Help Housing Experts (PERAPSI) is tasked with directly gathering people in remote parts of the archipelago, an estimated 4,500 people who are not recorded by the Ministry of PUPR who are working on building self-help houses.For this reason, the Association of Indonesian Self-Help Housing Experts (PERAPSI) itself will record data and go through a process of data collection and assessment of people who are not recorded.The assessment process itself is through the Computer Assessment Test (CAT).The system development method used is the Waterfall method.Methods of Requirement Definition, System and Software Design, Construction, Deployment, which ends with support for the resulting software.With this designed system, it is a test with a computer in real time.This system can provide several advantages compared to the currently running system, namely efficiency and effectiveness in processing information and managing computer test data.

PERANCANGAN APLIKASI PENILAIAN RUMAH TIDAK LAYAK HUNI MENGGUNAKAN METODE SIMPLE ADDITIVE WEIGHTING PADA KEGIATAN KEMENTERIAN PUPR

Determination of recipients of uninhabitable housing assistance (RTLH) is one of the problems that is of concern to the Directorate of Self-Help Housing of the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing of the Republic of Indonesia, because the large number of data on incoming aid proposals makes it difficult to determine which beneficiaries deserve due to the limited budget. One way to determine beneficiaries is to use a decision system using the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method. This method will provide the value of the selected alternative preference as an indicator to determine the recipient of assistance as it can help the data processing team, stakeholders and leaders in the Directorate of Self-Help as the government which has a policy in determining the prospective recipients of the house renovation assistance objectively not subjectively. The data used was taken from data collection conducted by the field team in the Serang City area of Banten Province where the data obtained were 935 residents

Initiating the Implementation of Merging Crimes in Corruption Self-help Housing Stimulant Assistance

Corruption in practice is not only a self-imposed crime but opens up space for other crimes both before and after the occurrence of corruption crimes. There are other criminal acts such as in the case of Self-Help Housing Stimulant Assistance in Pohuwato Gorontalo. However, in the process of law enforcement, only articles in the Corruption Law are used. Therefore, the focus of the problem in this paper is to examine the obstacles in investigating corruption in the Self-Help Housing Stimulant Assistance and how to apply the merger of criminal acts in corruption is implemented. The type of research used is normative research supported by empirical data. The results of this study indicate that the obstacles that affect the investigation of corruption in Self-Help Housing Stimulant Assistance consist of the minimum allocated budget, limited human resources, and facilities and infrastructure that are not following the cases handled. Meanwhile, the application of Article 263 of the Criminal Code in this case, should have been carried out by the method of merging criminal acts, namely concursus realis, because the perpetrators carried out the initial act of forging signatures regulated in Article 263 of the Criminal Code and then resulted in the birth of corruption crimes charged with Article 2 of the Corruption Law.

DAMPAK IMPLEMENTASI PROGRAM BANTUAN STIMULAN PERUMAHAN SWADAYA DI KELURAHAN HINEKOMBE KABUPATEN JAYAPURA

Regulation of the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing Number 07/PRT/M/2018 concerning Self-Help Housing Stimulant Assistance is an implementation carried out through self-help housing quality improvement activities.The total population projected by the Central Statistics Agency in Jayapura Regency is 131,802 people, 17.19 thousand people are classified as poor, in other words there are 13.13 percent of the population classified as poor and occupying uninhabitable houses in Jayapura Regency. In this study,the aim to be achieved is to analyze the implementation and influence of the Self - Help Housing Stimulant Program on the welfare of the community in Hinekombe Village , Sentani District and analyze the factors that influence the success of the program.According to Tuwis Handayani,2016,in his research,the Impact of Self-Help Housing Stimulant Assistance Program Implementation on Improving Community Welfare,concluded that: Implementation of Self-Help Housing Stimulant Assistance Program in Sumberjo Village in 2015 was influenced by policies and program implementers.This research was conducted using a quantitative research approach with factor analysis where this analysis is an analytical technique that contains information about the grouping of factor variables which aims to filter out which variables are the most superior or the most dominant from several variables selected by the researcher,in addition to the results of factor analysis. can also be used to distinguish priority variables based on existing rankings. It can be concluded that the beneficiaries are of the opinion that the socialization of the BSPS program has been carried out,including obtaining information and assistance during the BSPS program. This BSPS program also influences the mindset and changes people's lifestyles.The relationship between people who received assistance from the BSPS program and those who did not receive assistance remained well established and did not change

Pertanggungjawaban Pelaku Tindak Pidana Turut Serta Melakukan Korupsi Bantuan Stimulan Perumahan Swadaya

This research is to find out the basic considerations of judges in making decisions against perpetrators of criminal acts participating in corruption, stimulant assistance for self-help housing, and their criminal responsibility, using normative juridical research methods. The results of the study show that the basis for the judge's considerations in deciding against the perpetrators of the crime of participating in the corruption of self-supporting housing stimulant assistance is based on evidence, statements from witnesses, statements from experts, indictments and charges, the elements that meet in the indictment, as well as aggravating and mitigating circumstances and criminal responsibility for the perpetrators of corruption self-help housing stimulant assistance, namely imprisonment for 1 (one) year and a fine of Rp. 50,000,000., (fifty million rupiahs) ) provided that if the fine is not paid it is replaced by imprisonment for 3 (three) months.

“Ecologically camping, eating, drinking wine.” Material and knowledge flows in the Minimum Cost Housing Group’s ECOL Operation, 1971-76

For approximately fifty years, McGill University’s Minimum Cost Housing Group (MCHG) has undertaken research on the “human settlement problems of the poor.” This paper focuses on the group’s activities from 1970 to1976, and more specifically the “ECOL Operation” initiated by the group’s first director, Colombian architect and UN consultant Alvaro Ortega. The story of the ECOL Operation gives insight into some unanticipated feedback loops associated with the foreign-aid-funded knowledge economy. The ECOL Operation was pitched as a technical and material research program to develop self-help housing solutions for the “Third World.” In practice, it was an improvised mix of international development aspiration, Appropriate Technology enthusiasm, industrial research and development, and ecological design rhetoric. The paper argues that the MCHG’s efforts became most compelling as a blueprint for a set of designers and activists rethinking the consumerist lifestyles and material flows of the Global North. This highlights a more complex background to the counterculturally-inflected ventures of 1970s ecological design. The scene was more closely connected to the Cold War complex of intergovernmental organizations, development agendas, and industrial capitalism than its participants may have imagined.

Analysis of the self-help housing assistance program (SHA) in facilitating rural regional planning: A case study of village subulussalam utara, simpang kiri district, subulussalam city, aceh province, Indonesia

This study analyzed the implementation of the Self-Help Housing Assistance (SHA) program in achieving rural spatial planning in Subulussalam Utara Village, Simpang Kiri District, Subulussalam City, Aceh Province. The program involved multiple organizations and actors, each with specific tasks and functions. The research identified both supportive and inhibiting factors influencing the implementation of the SHA program. Supportive factors included effective communication among program implementers and cooperation among stakeholders. On the other hand, inhibiting factors included human resource limitations and the need for accurate targeting of beneficiaries. Overall, the program was found to be on track, but improvements are recommended, such as enhancing coordination and cooperation among relevant stakeholders. This can be achieved through persuasive approaches and continuous guidance from the Subulussalam City Public Works and Spatial Planning Agency (Dinas PUPR).

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM DETERMINING RECIPIENTS OF THE PEOPLE'S HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM USING THE ELIMINATION AND CHOICE TRANSLATION REALITY METHOD (ELECTRE)

In this era, the need for technology is indispensable in various fields of need, inseparable from the economic field in the field of community welfare, one of which is work programs to facilitate achieving goals, one of which is the work carried out by the Ministry of PUPR, namely the program for flats, special houses, and stimulant assistance for self-help housing. based on pre-determined criteria. Electre is one of the methods used to rank and determine the best alternative. The basic concept of the electre method is to deal with outranking relationships by using pairwise comparisons between alternatives under each criterion separately. Which produces a computerized system that can automatically determine people who are eligible to receive public housing assistance, based on the criteria values entered. This decision support system is designed using the PHP programming language

Sistem Pendukung Keputusan Seleksi Tenaga Fasilitator Lapangan BSPS Menggunakan Metode Multi Factor Evaluation Process

Field facilitator workers shall guide the Self-Help Housing Stimulant Assistance Program (BSPS) recipients intensively, either in technical matters or the fund use realization process during construction terms. Guidance is given from planning, implementing a construction, and forming an assistance recipient community group that can construct decent housing independently. Accordingly, field facilitator workers are imperative to guide the BSPS recipient community. Public Works and Spatial Planning Office in Gorontalo is still selecting field facilitator workers manually, bringing on assessment errors in the selection process, e.g., selecting field facilitator workers that do not fulfill the requirement. Additionally, the sheer number of applicants overwhelms staff as they have to face off piling files of applicants. It brings about a longer selection process. As such, a systematic selection process based on the determined criteria is important. Later, it can act as a reference. It is called a decision-supporting system. Our decision-supporting system aims to help make decisions to select field facilitator workers guiding the BSPS recipient community using the Multi-Factor Evaluation Process (MFEP) method. The results point out Bambang achieved the highest final score of 87.675. Hence, MFEP in the supporting system is a recommended method to make decisions to select field facilitator workers guiding the BSPS recipient community in building decent housing.

Analysing Impediments to the Effective Distribution of Low-income Housing in South Africa: The Case of the Delft Symphony Community in Cape Town

One of the dilemmas facing the post-Apartheid government in South Africa is the shortage of housing, often expressing itself in the rapid increase of informal settlements, especially in urban townships. The primary purpose of this qualitative study was to examine key impediments to the effective distribution of low-income housing with the Delft Symphony community in Cape Town used as its contextual focus. To achieve this, content and cross-analytical approaches were used to analyse some crucial insights from the Theory of Justice, the self-help housing model and the empirical findings from 28 key informants was done to gain better insights into various housing dynamics in the Delft Symphony community. Subsequently, poor planning and lack of suitable land for housing, particularly in urban spaces, were identified as key impediments to the effective implementation of low-income housing. This study submits that this situation demands a timeous response from authorities because an increase in population means a high demand for land. Pending short-and-long term solutions, the city will experience land invasions, which might even occur in the areas reserved for other developmental purposes. Therefore, there is a need for collective action to fast-track the processes of land approval for low-income housing in the likes of the Delft Symphony community. Keywords: Challenges, Delft Symphony Community, Housing Delivery, Informal Settlements, Low-income Housing

TINGKAT KEPUASAN MASYARAKAT TERHADAP PROGRAM BANTUAN STIMULAN PERUMAHAN SWADAYA (BSPS) (STUDI KASUS: KECAMATAN JATI AGUNG, KABUPATEN LAMPUNG SELATAN)

The problem of uninhabitable houses must get more special handling in order to create a prosperous community life. The Self-Help Housing Stimulant Assistance Program (BSPS) is a government program in providing facilities for low-income households to have decent housing. The provision of services can affect the level of satisfaction of the receiving community, because the level of community satisfaction can measure the success of a service or product provided by the government. (Case Study: Jati Agung District, South Lampung Regency) with the aim of knowing the level of community satisfaction with the quality of services provided in the BSPS program. The analysis used is descriptive qualitative in the form of interviews and documentation in this study using three RLH criteria, namely building safety, adequacy of space or minimum area, and health. The results of the study show that there is a conformity between the RLH criteria that have been built with the BSPS program criteria so that there is satisfaction felt by the community because the suitability is in accordance with what is expected and also because of the good service to create houses with livable conditions and improve people's lives towards a more good.

EVALUASI KEBIJAKAN PROGRAM BANTUAN STIMULASI PERUMAHAN SWADAYA DI KABUPATEN BUTON SELATAN

The purpose of this study was to determine the implementation of the Self-Help Housing Stimulant Assistance Program (BSPS) in South Buton Regency. The method used by researchers is a qualitative research method through observation, interviews and documentation. The number of informants in this study were four people from the government of Lapandewa Jaya Village, and three people from the community as recipients of self-supporting housing stimulation assistance. The results in this study indicate that the implementation of self-help housing stimulation assistance in Lapandewa Jaya Buton Selatan Village still has several obstacles, namely during the implementation process the recipient provides help from workers or labor from other people who are paid, while there is no budget for renting construction workers, as well as a relatively low budget. small to build thus affecting the quality and time to build, so what the government needs to continue to encourage at this time is evaluating the recipients of Self-Help Housing Stimulation Assistance and ascertaining how many other low-income people who cannot afford to have livable homes to be proposed as candidates for assistance recipients Stimulation of the next stage of Self-Help Housing.

Unravelling the challenges for long-term planning post-disaster resettlement in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines

Typhoon Washi hit the southern Philippine city of Cagayan de Oro in December 2011, causing massive destruction and displacing 40 per cent of the city’s population, 85 per cent of whom were informal settlers of highly vulnerable areas on the riverbanks. Informal settlers considered by the government as the most vulnerable residents were forcibly resettled in relocation sites in the peri-urban areas. The new settlements and houses fulfilled minimum Philippine standards for emergency housing with limited understanding of local conditions and creating gaps in the residents’ needs. In the following years, residents proactively modified their houses to fill initial housing gaps. The impacts of the residents’ self-help initiatives related to construction safety and the creation of new risks associated with low construction quality, materials and increased density in the houses are major concerns for the government which is responsible for policies to guide the urban development of these sites. This paper aims to assess the impacts of policies in the urban development of the resettlement sites for low-income disaster-affected communities. To do so, this paper analyses interviews with local government officials, analysing residents’ self-help housing construction seven years after the disaster and how these were considered in the local planning policies. Furthermore, the country’s post-disaster recovery planning changes will be analysed. The findings will provide insights into government-related challenges to guarantee the technical performance of the houses and the advances and crucial remaining governance challenges for implementing urban development policies.

Variable sustainability of domestic wastewater management in informal self-help housing, Case Study Bogor City

The purpose of this study is to identify sustainability variables in domestic wastewater management in informal self-help housing in Bogor City. The analysis tool used is MICMAC analysis, which can identify variables of influences and dependences, mapped in a graph to explain the relationships between variables, and know the causal chain of a system. The identified variables are derived from books, journals, regulations issued by the government, field observations, in-depth interviews with stakeholders, focuss group discussion. The result of the MICMAC analysis is 1) very influential variables as key variables include: variables of the role of government and social capital; 2) relay variables or variables that are influential but highly dependent, including variables of community participation and empowerment, knowledge and education, sharing community resources, financial assistance, non-financial assistance, provision/ construction of facilities and infrastructure, operation and maintenance of facilities and infrastructure, community institutions, management collaboration, policy reform, budget support, regulations for providing incentives/disincentives and rewards/sanctions that are implemented; 3) depending variables or result variables are variable of spatial and building planning; 4) excluded variables or variables whose influence is relatively small on the system are variables of culture and customs, alternative financing, land provision and legal aspects of land, partnerships between government, private, community and volunteer organizations and asset security.

Organized self-help housing in Pachacútec, Peru: Training women's groups in earthquake resistant housing construction

Ciudad Pachacútec is a suburban development scheme north of Lima, where deficiencies were great from the start. The main problem was the population’s safety in the sandy and arid urban landscapes, which are prone to earthquakes. The main objective of the NGO Estrategia - together with the municipality of Ventanilla - was to provide the self-builders with technical and organizational knowledge to improve housing quality. The NGO has developed effective programs to support women's groups in building earthquake-resistant houses. The result was that building materials were produced locally by households that were also trained in construction technology. Some families working together in groups, were able to start businesses. The developed model for earthquake resistant housing in New Pachacútec is effective and can be used in other areas alongside Peru’s Pacific coast, that are prone to earthquakes.

Pelaksanaan Program Bantuan Stimulan Perumahan Swadaya (BSPS) dalam Meningkatkan Kesejahteraan Masyarakat di Kabupaten Pandeglang (Studi di Desa Ciherang Kecamatan Picung Kabupaten Pandeglang)

This thesis discusses the Implementation of the Self-Help Housing Stimulant Assistance Program (BSPS) in Improving the Social Welfare of the Community in Pandeglang Regency which has the aim of fulfilling the right of citizens to a decent place to live in a healthy, safe, comfortable and orderly environment. The issues and objectives discussed in this thesis is about all the Policy, Implementation, Problems and Efforts to Overcome Problems and Results in implementing of the BSPS Program in Ciherang Village. The location of this study is in Ciherang Village, Picung District, Pandeglang Regency, this research is to use a descriptive field research method with qualitative analysis, meaning that the researcher describes the reality in the field correctly. This research instrument is a researcher as a human instrument using interview guidelines and documentation. Observational data collection techniques, interviews and documentation. The data obtained are then analyzed continuously by reducing data, verifying data and testing data sensitivity. The results showed that the implementation of the BSPS Program in Ciherang Village, the community has felt the benefits, with the type of assistance for Improving the Quality of Independent Houses whose Assistance Value is Rp. 17,500,000 which is distributed through their respective accounts to buy building materials worth Rp. 15,000,000 and artisan wages worth Rp. 2,500,000. beneficiaries are required to have self-help sourced from their families, communities, governments and others.
 
 Keywords: Self-Help Housing Stimulant Assistance Program, Community Empowerment, Community Welfare.