Land Related Challenge To Slum Upgrading

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programme (KISIP). While all this may excite hope in the over 1.4 million slum dwellers in Nairobi with the big promise for improvement in their living conditions, the implementation process seem to be bedeviled with myriad obstacles that may not be easy to surmount. Some of the most obvious obstacles include lack of space for decanting, high population densities, absolute poverty and resistance from structure owners commonly called slumlords. This paper is going look into some of land related challenges facing slum upgrading efforts in Kenya. The study utilizes information from previous experiences with slum upgrading to illustrate some of the land related factors that have constrained the achievement of anticipated results in the slum upgrading programmes. This is a desktop study that utilizes literature review, government reports and documents and NGO studies to point out pertinent land related obstacles to slum upgrading process in Nairobi.

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to establish the suitability of the land occupied by slum settlements in terms of tenure and usage

Slum development in Kenya is related to many factors. These include unplanned urbanization where by the towns receive more immigrants than it is prepared to accommodate; urbanization of poverty where poor people who cannot afford decent housing come to urban areas and ; dysfunctional, discriminative, complex and exclusive land management and planning systems where land occupied by the poor is excluded from the main urban management menu

The tenure of land on which the informal settlements of Nairobi are established varies within a broad continuum from insecure tenure to secure and ...

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