Housing Africa's Urban Poor

Housing Africa's Urban Poor
Author: Philip Amis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2018-09-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429817193

Originally published in 1990, this book reveals the extent to which petty landlordism is developing not just in the African urban settlements that have sprung up but in government-sponsored low-cost housing estates. The first part of the book traces African governments' changing responses to urban growth since the 1960s. The second presents case studies of housing markets and landlord-tenant relations north and south of the Sahara. The third examines World Bank involvement, and the book ends by considering policy implications.