URP_4175

RESETTLEMENT PLANNING

Lecture 6: RP - Case Study

Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement Project (UGIIP) - 3

Md. Manjur Morshed, Lecturer

Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Khulna University of Engineering and Technology
IMPORTANCE OF HOUSING
 Dhaka- 11th mega-city, 25 million by the year 2025
 At least 100,000 household units every year are required
 Population density of 27,700 people per square kilometre
 3.4 million people in the city live in slums
 Housing: illegal, informal and inadequate
 Housing supply is constrained by the shortage of land supply
 Land price in Dhaka city is higher than major cities in the US
 Dhaka-dwellers spend 35-45% of their income on house rent
 About 22% of the total new real-estate is empty

Q. What are the major housing issues of Khulna City? What and where is the
slum problem in Khulna? How this problem is tackled by the local government?
GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTION TO HOUSING

Non-Development and Development Budget of Fiscal Year 2013-14

Q. Why and how is government investment in housing reduced?
GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTION TO HOUSING

How do we understand the rise of NGOs as a secondary stakeholders?

NATIONAL HOUSING POLICY
CASE STUDY-1: SLUM AND RE-SETTLEMENT
 Squatter population of Dhaka - 14% of the total in 1974.
 Eviction because of:
 Because of pressure on the government from the press and the more
fortunate members of the society
 In1975, clear 172,589 squatters from the streets and vacant lands of
Dhaka.
 The squatter people were dumped in three peripheral resettlement
camps where virtually no preparations had been made for them
(Choguill, 1993).

• A UN Mission in 1975 remarked:

“…before any action is taken to resettle
or remove squatters…steps be taken with a view to
developing a short-term strategy for dealing with the
squatter problem”. (Ullah, 1994; Rahman, 2001, 58).
CASE STUDY-2: SLUM AND RE-SETTLEMENT
 The Korail slum in Dhaka sits on over 0.69 km2 of government land.
 Over 40,000 residents bordering wealthy neighbourhoods
 In January 2012, the High Court ordered to clear the land,
 In April 2012, almost 2,000 homes in Korail without advance notice
 4,500 people were homeless
 Protest from the residents, NGOs and citizen associations
 The government had to withdraw from the total eviction plan.

 Ain o Salish Kendra, petitioned to the High Court to pass an order

to make sure “…the rehabilitation of the Korail slum dwellers before
any eviction drive”.
 The High Court passed an order to this effect, but was neglected in
this case.
CONCLUSION
 Housing policy has experienced decadal shift (1970-2000)
 Government is no longer the primary producer of land and housing
 Market based housing – poor cannot afford the market price
 Resettlement was not done in the proper manner
 NGOs, citizen groups are making a difference in displacement and
resettlement
 Involvement of NGOs and citizen associations are important for
securing citizen rights.

Questions: How housing policy changed over last decades? With reference to
one/two case studies, show how NGOs are contributing to the housing right?