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Aided self-help: the Million Houses Programme - revisiting the issues
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posted on 2010-04-28, 12:00 authored by Sharadbala Joshi, M. Sohail (Khan)The self-help approach to housing aims at creating an enabling environment. An environment in
which occupants of a piece of land, especially the poor, build their affordable houses fulfilling their
current needs and progressively expand and/or improve the house to meet their changing needs. The
Million Houses Programme in Sri Lanka ‘aided’ self-help incorporated participation in decisionmaking,
support for planning, design, construction, and financing. The project further expanded to
enhance skills of settlement residents for taking-up community contracts for construction of
community assets. Currently when relocation of slum dwellers in built-housing is becoming the
preferred option, this article very briefly revisited the lessons learnt and the lessons that could still be
learned from the experience of the Million Houses Programme and of the ‘People’s Process’. It argues
that an ‘enabling environment’ for increasing access to housing involves multi-pronged support
through facilitators. The experience of the Million Houses Programme offer insights, even now, into
effective strategies for aided self-help housing.
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JOSHI, S. and SOHAIL KHAN, M., 2009. Aided self-help: the Million Houses Programme - revisiting the issues. Habitat International, 34 (3), pp.306-314.Publisher
© Elsevier Ltd.Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2009Notes
This article was accepted for publication in the journal Habitat International [© Elsevier] and the definitive version can be found at: www.elsevier.com/locate/habitatintISSN
0197-3975Language
- en
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