Land for housing in African cities: are informal delivery systems institutionally robust and pro-poor?

Abstract

In the early years of rapid rural-urban migration and urban growth, many poor households were able to get access to land to manage the construction of their own houses for little or no payment, through claims to family land, ‘squatting ’ or similar arrangements. Following research in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a feeling that the processes of ‘squatting ’ and allocation of customary land by legitimate rights holders, as

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