Housing Africa's Urban Poor (African Seminars: Scholarship from the International African Institute)

by Peter Lloyd (Editor), Philip Amis (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2018

  $149.95

  Originally published in 1990, this book reveals the extent to which petty landlordism is developing not just in the African urban settlements that have sprung up but in government-sponsored low-cost housing estates. The first part of the book traces African governments' changing responses to urban growth since the 1960s. The second presents case studies of housing markets and landlord-tenant relations north and south of the Sahara. The third examines World Bank involvement, and the book ends by considering policy implications.