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ELEMENTS OF CONTEXT
HISTORY
DEMOGRAPHY
SOCIO-ECONOMICAL CONTEXT
HABITAT
HISTORY OF CITIES – HERITAGE
URBAN HOUSING
Housing, especially in urban areas in Namibia has been a thorny issue, with only the minority elites able to acquire land and formal houses. This situation has been aggravated by land scarcity, rural-urban migration, while others blame it on the slow delivery of serviced land by municipalities. Before independence, according to Mrs Muller (NHAG), there were neither corrugated iron shacks nor matchbox shacks behind houses in Windhoek.
RURAL HOUSING
Legal Aspects
RIGHT TO HOUSING
FORCED EVICTION
LAND RIGHTS
LAND GRABBING
VULNERABLE GROUPS
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Homelessness
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Joungpeople
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Old people
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Women
SOME INTERESTING PRACTICES
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Housing Ombudsman : In 2012, for the first time, the Ombudsman of Namibia habitat has used his constitutional power to oppose an eviction follows the unpaid rent. The Ombudsman questioned the procedure for default judgment and writ of execution. (in The Namibian)
Social and economic aspects
HOUSING MARKET
QUALITY OF HOUSING
INFORMAL HOUSING / SLUM / HOMELESS
ROLE OF PUBLIC AUTHORITIES
Cultural aspects – Religious – Symbolic
Environmental aspects
Bibliography & Sitography
MAJOR PROBLEMS BY CIVIL SOCIETY
CLAIMS MAJOR CIVIL SOCIETY
CIVIL SOCIETY ACTORS
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NAMIBIA HOUSING ACTION GROUP = a non-governmental organization (NGO) formed in 1992 to assist low-income housing groups. They work over the years to help poor household improve their conditions and gain access to basic infrastructure, including sanitary and housing. Contact them 1 or Contact them 2 or via Homeless International website
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SHACK DWELLERS FEDERATION OF NAMIBIA – SDFN = a network of savings groups comprising poor communities. Informal settlements in Namibia have been organizing savings groups since 1987, but it was not until 1998 that the savings groups since came togheter as a national network to form SDFN. They work over the years to help poor household improve their conditions and gain access to basic infrastructure, including sanitary and housing. via Facebook or via Homeless International website
