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Housing Policies and Strategies
Housing Policies and Strategies
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PROFESSOR DR. KASPHIA NAHRIN
Housing policy
availability.
National Housing Policy in Bangladesh
Source: Akter and Akram (2020) Trend of National Housing Policy: Bangladesh Perspective (Can meet the challenge of housing for
all?), International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) |Volume IV, Issue I, 2454-6186
Policy options of National Housing Policy 2016
Planning
Land
Finance
Infrastructure
Building construction material and technology
Human resource management
Slum and squatter settlement
Rural housing
Social Housing: house reconstruction and rehabilitation in
environmentally disaster affected areas
Social Housing: housing for distressed, women headed family,
elderly and poor
Role of Government in Housing
Turner has suggested seven basic needs for a balanced
housing policy in developing countries:
Taxation of
Direct /formal
Land ceiling Land pooling housing
construction
property
Site and services schemes
Site and services scheme
Major public housing land projects in Bangladesh
Planned layout in levels plot and furnished with services in each
property Occupants contribute for construction
Land procurement, site preparation, infrastructure provision, plot
development
Gradual development
Snow ball effects of
development
Locational advancement Land House rent will
tenure be increased,
Allows the existing social-tie problem gentrification
as no relocation
Nucleus housing/core/row
housing
Temporary shelter or small core unit
Example: Rohingya camp, river bank erosion
camp
Housing with low cost and local available
materials
Utility blocks - washstand, kitchen block,
Direct construction or formal
housing
Government or real estate or private developers construct full-furnished
housing
Direct construction
Private investment
Financial scheme
Partnership
Tax exemption
Prevent
and Reduce Prevents land
monopoly of
burdensome speculative use curve
land ownership
tax
Housing provision in developing
countries
Housing policies in Developed
countries
Housing policies in Developed countries