Housing and Urban Planning

Introduction• MARRI > WT II

• Partners

Housing and Urban Planning

Intro

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Informal Settlements

Follow-up actions

Mid-term actions

Activities in 2004• Housing Programme Development, Montenegro

• Regional approach to Informal Settlements

• Resolution & prevention of informal settlements

• Housing/Urban Management capacity building

Activities in 2004• Housing Programme Development, Montenegro

• Ministry of Environmental Protection & Urban Planning (MEUP)

• 1st national roundtable (July 2004)

• 4 thematic working sessions with 4 working groups > Issue & position papers

• 2nd national roundtable (Dec 2004) > Draft HP

• GoM approval

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Intro

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Informal Settlements

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Activities in 2004• Housing Programme Development, Montenegro

Housing and Urban Planning

Intro

2004: HPPD Montenegro

Informal Settlements

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Informal Settlements

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Intro

2004: HPPD Montenegro

Informal Settlements

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• Definition (Vienna Declaration)

• Settlements, which for a variety of reasons do not meet requirements for legal recognition

• Informal or insecure land tenure, inadequate access to basic services, both social & physical infrastructure and housing finance.

• Significant regional diversity in terms of their manifestation

Informal Settlements• Root causes

• Rapid urbanisation (rural-urban migration)

• Public sector failure in housing sector

• Access to housing

• Land information & registration

• Access to housing finance

• Inadequate frameworks & procedures

• Inappropriate urban planning methods

• Human/finacial capacity constraints

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Informal Settlements

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Informal Settlements• Informal Settlements > Physical expression

• Unplanned, spontaneous housing development expressed in variety of typologies:

• Poverty issue > basic shelter need

Fringes of cities

• Pass over of procedures

Fringes of cities / Inner city locations

• Unlawful investments

Inner city location / Scenic attraction

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Informal Settlements

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Urban growth (Tirana)

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2000

Bathore informal settlements (Greater Tirana area)

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Steps of illegal land occupation

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Urban slums (Belgrade)

Informal housing in Montenegro (Podgorica)

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… and informal housing in Montenegro (Podgorica / Bar)

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Unplanned settlements (Sarajevo / Podgorica) & illegal electricity connection

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Public resistance / participation (Albania)

Informal Settlements• Informal Settlements > Related problems

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Informal Settlements

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Public sector

- Urban sprawl

- High infrastructure costs

- Revenue (tax, fees)

- Informal economy

- Public resistance

- Environmental issues

- Vital urban (and overall economic) development hampered

Informal dwellers

+ Dwelling

- Access to urban services

- Access to social infrastructure

- Tenure security (Eviction or demolition, recognition of basic rights)

- Dwelling not considered an economic asset / collateral

- Danger of socio-economic segregation

> Resolution of backlog & prevention through implementation of responsive policies & programmes

Activities in 2004• Regional two-level approach & Ministerial

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Informal Settlements

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• Committment & National policy development

• Implementation: Regional concept for housing & urban management capacity building (gov/mun)

Vienna Declaration

Regional Capacity BuildingCapacity Assessment > Report

Ministerial conference on informal

settlements in SEE

28 Sept – 01 Oct 2004

NAT

LOC

Activities in 2004• Conclusions of Ministerial Conference

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Informal Settlements

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• Different types of informal settlements

• Planning processes action oriented

• Financial opportunities for infrastructure upgrading

• Legal framework to be utilised as best as possible

• Capacity building

• Conference on municipal management and decentralisation

Follow-up actions (Conference)• General

Summary proceedings / conclusions

• Online publication of presentations & conclusions

• Analysis & evaluation > publication early 2005

• Follow-up meeting in early 2005 (Podgorica?)

• Discussion of regional conference on urban management (earmarked for late 2005) with potential partners

Housing and Urban Planning

Intro

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Informal Settlements

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Follow-up actions (Conference)• Capacity Building Instrument

• Draft programme proposal by end-Nov 2004

• Establish Peer Review Group in December 2004

• Timeframe for final programme prop.: end of 2004

• Approval of final programme proposal by regional partners in early 2005

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Informal Settlements

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Follow-up actions (Conference)• Capacity Building Instrument

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Intro

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Informal Settlements

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Mid-term actions• Government of Macedonia

• Support national housing policy action plan

• Government of Serbia

• Support housing policy and programme development

• UN-Habitat

• Structural co-operation in region (capacity building, joint fundraising)

• CEB

• Discussion of SP Housing support in preparation of feasibility studies for CEB housing loans

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Housing and Urban Planning

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Informal Settlements

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