URBANIZATION
History of Cities – Heritage
Urban Housing
Rural Housing
LEGAL ASPECTS
Right to Housing
Since 1990 – Article 38 (d) of the Constitution:
The State will provide the basic needs such as food, clothing, housing, education and medical assistance to all its citizens, irrespective of sex, caste, creed or race, and all those who are unable to earn a living permanently or temporarily because of an infirmity, sickness or unemployment.
Source: CETIM (publication COHRE)
Forced Eviction
USEFUL TOOLS:
- Housing and Land Rights Violation Database in each country (Housing and Land Network – HIC): http://hlrn.org/welcome_violation.php#.VD-IVCi7_vQ
- Zero Evictions Campaign (International Alliance of Inhabitants): http://www.habitants.org/zero_evictions_campaign
Land Law
Land Grabbing
USEFUL TOOLS
- Data sets on agricultural land grabbing in the world (GRAIN): https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/4429-new-data-sets-on-land-grabbing
- The Online Public Database on Land Deals – Global Observatory (Land Matrix): http://landmatrix.org/en/
Vulnerable Groups
- Old People
- Young People
- Women
Some Interesting Practices
- THE ORANGI PILOT PROJECT (OPP) is an institution that assists residents in housing and infrastructure. It maximizes the use of local resources and empowers the community in the management and financing of neighborhood infrastructure projects in Pakistan. An interesting concept of “social preparation” is done via prior training of local actors. These community projects with a dimension of self-construction of sewerage systems. To learn more, visit the project website of Orangi Pilot Projet and/or a report on Social Production of Habitat conducted by Urbamonde: http://urbamonde.org/site/sites/urbamonde.org/files/Brochure%20PSH%2002_WEB.pdf
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS
Housing Market
Quality of Housing
Informal Housing / Slum / Homeless
ROLE OF PUBLIC AUTHORITIES
Social Housing
Other public dispositives
ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS
Bibliography & Sitography
SEEN BY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Major Problems
Major Claims or Demands
Some Civil Society Actors
- ARCHITECTS OF EMERGENCY = Foundation has its headquarters in France – Switzerland – Australia and Canada, which provides expert guidance to victims of disasters. This is specifically a double field action: urgent action which involves measuring the risks for populations to get them to safety, particularly in terms of the built – reconstruction work following the disaster (reconstruction of the built – resettlement of displaced persons) for the sake of training and use of local products their website : http://www.archi-urgent.com/
- PILOT PROJECT Orangi (OPP) = an institution that assists residents in housing and infrastructure. It maximizes the use of local resources and empowers the community in the management and financing of neighborhood infrastructure projects in Pakistan. http://www.oppinstitutions.org/