Housing Africa’s Urban Poor

Abstract

The poorest of Africa's urban poor tend to be recent immigrants who gravitate to city-centre slums or shanty towns. Increasingly, housing is becoming commercialized, with the urban population stratified into owner-occupiers, landlords or tennants. This volume comprises papers from an International African Institute seminar at which participants reported on the policies of international agencies and African governments, their impact on the supply of housing, and the social consequences. It reveals the extent to which petty landlordism is developing, not only in settlements which have sprung up but also in government-sponsored, low-cost housing estates. Additionally, it explores how city housing policies are now tending to exacerbate social inequalities.

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