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Article
Housing Policy in Khartoum: Plot Subdivision for Increased Housing Supply for Low-income People
Author(s)
Abdulhafeez Awad Hafazalla
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2018.05.003
Affiliation(s)
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Environment Design, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
ABSTRACT
The article discusses plot size standards applied in the government
sites-and-services projects in Khartoum and probes into the possible
alternative ways of re-establishing solid grounds for those standards. The
particular issue of plot size is a crucial factor in the whole housing policy
as it directly affects the urban land use and consumption and extends its
influence far into sustainability and affordability issues and the whole
housing policy and supply process. The article, analysing the applied standards, argues that plot subdivision can substantially contribute to providing
more access of housing to the low-income groups. Large plot sizes can be subdivided driven by the need
to realize security of tenure, doubling the owner-occupier housing stock which
is the base issue of self-help housing, increases housing finance, provides variety of housing
choices and behind all it conforms to the legacy principles and some cultural
attributes of the local
community. The article underlined existence of a cumbersome regulatory system, subdivision
procedures and development controls which need to be reformed.
KEYWORDS
Housing policy, urban land, Khartoum, plot size, regulatory framework.
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