Housing Africa's Urban Poor
Housing Africa's Urban Poor

Author: Philip Amis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-03

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 0429817185

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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.

Housing and SDGs in Urban Africa
Housing and SDGs in Urban Africa

Author: Timothy Gbenga Nubi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-03-08

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 9813344245

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There is a dearth of collections of scholarly works dedicated wholly to African issues, that comes out of the work done by African scholars and practitioners with both African collaborators and from elsewhere. This volume brings together scholarly works and thoughts that cut across and intertwine the tripods-environment-consciousness, socially just development and African development into options that could deliver on the promise of the SDGs. The book project is an initiative of the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development at the University of Lagos, which realized the gap in ground research linking the housing sector with the SDGs in African cities. This book therefore presents chapters that explore the interconnections, interactions and linkages between the SDGs and Housing through research, practice, experience, case-studies, desk-based research and other knowledge media.