Working Paper 18 Housing: Domain report - Miriam Maina, Ezana Haddis

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Table of Contents

• Acronyms 4
• 1. Executive summary 5
• Figure 1: ACRC’s conceptual framework 7
• Figure 2: Housing domain cities 8
• 2. Introduction 9
• 3. Summary of prior knowledge 12
• Figure 3: Percentage of the population that is urban, by region 13
• Figure 4: Projected growth of urban agglomerations in Africa by size class: 1950-2030 13
• Figure 5: Projected urban population in ACRC housing domain cities 14
• 3.1. Key concepts 17
• 3.2. Actors, institutions and power relations 21
• 3.2.1. Government actors and agencies 21
• 3.2.2. Producers: Housing entrepreneurs and developers 22
• 3.2.3. NGOs and social movements 23
• 3.2.4. International actors 23
• 3.2.5. Building professionals and research institutes 24
• 3.2.6. The “end user” – homeowners and tenants 24
• 3.3. Systems and linkages 24
• 4. Approach and methodology 28
• Figure 6: Processes along the housing production ecosystem 29
• 5. Findings 31
• 5.1. Role of the state in shaping housing systems 32
• Box 1: Affordability challenges of Ethiopian’s IHDP 34
• Figure 7: Involvement of the state across the housing value chain 35
• 5.2. Institutional relationships affecting housing value chains 35
• 5.3. Housing project value chain 37
• Figure 8: Governance in the Lagos housing development value chain 38
• 5.4. Dynamics in rental housing 39
• 5.5. Management and maintenance of urban residential stock 42
• Box 2: Promoting affordable green estates: Peridot Estate 43
• 5.6. Construction materials and innovation 45
• Box 3: Rising costs of building materials and impact in housing conditions in informal settlements 45
• 5.7. Labour and working conditions 47
• 5.8. Climate-related vulnerabilities in residential areas 49
• 6. Implications 50
• 6.1. Governance 52
• 6.2. Rental markets 53
• 6.3. Innovative building and construction materials 54
• 6.4. Construction labour markets 55
• 7. Conclusion 55
• References 58
• Appendix A 66
• ACRC housing domain reports 66
• Back cover_working paper series 2024.pdf 1
• Sample_ACRC working papers.pdf 1
• 1. Introduction 1
• 2. Heading 1 which should not capitalised 1
• 2.1. Heading 2 1
• Table 1: Title not all capsed 1
• References 1
• Covid Collective_community responses synthesis report 060622.pdf 1
• 1. Background and introduction: Understanding Covid-19’s impacts and responses to it in East African cities 1
• 2. Methodology 1
• 3. Key findings 1
• 3.1. Violence and insecurity 1
• 3.2. Emergency relief 1
• Mogadishu 1
• 3.3. Countering misinformation and tackling the Covid ‘infodemic’ 1
• 3.4. Coalitions, collaboration and grassroots-led responses 1
• Kampala 1
• Figure 1: Overview of the top-down formal structure of Uganda’s Covid-19 response led by the NTF 1
• Mogadishu 1
• Figure 2: Overview of the formal structure of Somalia’s Covid-19 response, including the Mogadishu Incident Management System 1
• Nairobi 1
• Mathare 1
• 4. Conclusions and policy recommendations 1
• Table 1. Summary of key Covid-19 responses (top) and different cross-cutting modalities of interaction between actors in the three cities (below) 1
• Figure 3: Modalities of interaction across scales in response to the Covid-19 pandemic 1
• 4.1 Key Recommendations 1
• References 1