HOUSING
 Adequate residential options for all income level

 

Efforts targeted at solving the housing problem in Addis Ababa have
fallen short of the accumulated demand. Shortage is especially acute
for low-income households that account for over 80 percent of the city’s
population. Overcrowding and deterioration widely prevail.  An estimated
60 percent of the city's core is dilapidated, and about a quarter of
all housing units have been built informally.  The city is also not able
to provide adequate services to the extension areas thus discouraging house construction and contributing to the expansion of the slums. 

·Remove obstacles for self-help housing maintenance in areas reserved for
   housing
·Upgrade existing housing areas and support and encourage upgrading
   initiatives by communities and non-governmental organizations
· Introduce differentiated ownership options such as condominium and air
   rights.
·Privatize public houses through redevelopment and upgrading  projects.
· Introduce phased development and improvement system and provide
   incentives to the private sector; integrate the community in self-help
   upgrading and redevelopment projects, devise compensation, relocation and
   resettlement strategies


· Manage informal settlements through focusing relocation on ‘untenable’
  location provision of some security of tenure: for others, and enabling the
  community to Improve infrastructure through supporting community-based
  construction and management, control squatter settlements through Woredas
  and Kebeles
 

· De-densify and maintain appropriate and healthy density levels at  the city's
  core, re-densify intermediate and infill areas

· Provide land in-fill (1100 ha.) and expansion areas (8950 ha) the    
  latterthrough wide-weave grid development with minimum infrastructure
  services
· Revise building regulations and codes: permit self-help housing with only
  minimal building standards; foster the use of indigenous, low-cost
  construction materials and technology; give developed plots to low-income
  population at subsidized rates, support the construction of low-income private
  rental housing.
· Avoid closed account deposit requirements for land acquisition. Create a
  system whereby house builders deposit only a small part of  the construction
  cost as initial fund.


· Promote mixed income and activity profile in housing areas; mix real estate,
  cooperative housing, and housing for low-income in expansion areas. Limit
  the size of high standard real estate development projects and the size of
  gated communities.
· Create formal market for the transfer of public-owned houses by giving
  priority to the current occupants so as to promote private initiative. Also
  remove barriers for ownership transactions and redress capital gains and
  rental income taxes and laws which act as disincentives for investment in
  rental housing

·Develop urban design and greenery regulations for street planting and open
  spaces and ensure viable enforcement mechanisms and responsibility;
  impose one-plot-one-tree obligations; promote new  sub-centers in
  expansion areas for proximity of services.

· Promote housing construction and saving associations through  regulatory
  measures, and extend loan guarantees and expand  micro-finance
  programs for housing in collaboration with NGOs for  poor residents
· Re-institutionalize land and housing development and financing agencies
  and institutions
· Strengthen cost-recovery mechanisms for infrastructure provision

 
 Structure Plan   
   ·Centrality
   ·Market Hierarchy
   ·Strategic Investment Areas
   ·Manufacturing & Industries
   ·Road Network
   ·Transportation
   ·Social Services
   ·Housing
   ·Environment
   ·Historical Structure & Sites
   ·Synthesis of  the Structure
     Plan
 
 Regulations
   ·Urban Planning Regulation
     ·Construction Permit
       Regulation