Revisit to Incremental Housing Focusing on the Role of a Comprehensive Community Centre : The Case of Jinja, Uganda

Incremental housing is a gradual process whereby residents incrementally improve or extend their houses by themselves, whenever funding or time becomes available. This approach has attracted attention as an affordable way of improving poor living conditions in slums often with sites-and-services sch...

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Main Authors:	Park, Joon, Lim, Yirang, Kim, Kyohee, Wang, Hyounggun
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2019
Subjects:	INCREMENTAL HOUSING ASSISTED SELF-HELP COMMUNITY CENTER SELF-RELIANCE SLUMS
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31791

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spelling	okr-10986-317912021-05-25T10:54:39Z Revisit to Incremental Housing Focusing on the Role of a Comprehensive Community Centre : The Case of Jinja, Uganda Park, Joon Lim, Yirang Kim, Kyohee Wang, Hyounggun INCREMENTAL HOUSING ASSISTED SELF-HELP COMMUNITY CENTER SELF-RELIANCE SLUMS Incremental housing is a gradual process whereby residents incrementally improve or extend their houses by themselves, whenever funding or time becomes available. This approach has attracted attention as an affordable way of improving poor living conditions in slums often with sites-and-services scheme. In many cases, this approach is coupled with an emphasis on self-help sweat equity, which can be strengthened by active community involvement. This study seeks to suggest a way of combining a scheme of empowering self-reliant communities with incremental housing. Based on the lessons from previous slum upgrade projects in Jinja, Uganda, this study points out the necessity of 1) more sustainable approach with self-help incremental housing than one-time grant-based projects, 2) an assisted way of empowering community and providing training schemes, 3) a temporary shelter for original dwellers who are affected by slum upgrade projects, and 4) an inclusive scheme for tenants who are frequently ignored in many slum upgrade schemes. This study proposes a ‘Self-Reliance Centre (SRC)’, which is designed to function as a space for community empowerment, a training centre, and a temporary shelter for incremental housing scheme in slum upgrade. As an assisted self-help approach, the SRC in incremental housing has a feature of initial involvement by public sector to invite eventual self-reliance of communities for sustainability in incremental housing. 2019-06-05T19:04:42Z 2019-06-05T19:04:42Z 2019 Journal Article International Journal of Urban Sciences 1226-5934 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31791 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Uganda
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description	Incremental housing is a gradual process whereby residents incrementally improve or extend their houses by themselves, whenever funding or time becomes available. This approach has attracted attention as an affordable way of improving poor living conditions in slums often with sites-and-services scheme. In many cases, this approach is coupled with an emphasis on self-help sweat equity, which can be strengthened by active community involvement. This study seeks to suggest a way of combining a scheme of empowering self-reliant communities with incremental housing. Based on the lessons from previous slum upgrade projects in Jinja, Uganda, this study points out the necessity of 1) more sustainable approach with self-help incremental housing than one-time grant-based projects, 2) an assisted way of empowering community and providing training schemes, 3) a temporary shelter for original dwellers who are affected by slum upgrade projects, and 4) an inclusive scheme for tenants who are frequently ignored in many slum upgrade schemes. This study proposes a ‘Self-Reliance Centre (SRC)’, which is designed to function as a space for community empowerment, a training centre, and a temporary shelter for incremental housing scheme in slum upgrade. As an assisted self-help approach, the SRC in incremental housing has a feature of initial involvement by public sector to invite eventual self-reliance of communities for sustainability in incremental housing.
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author	Park, Joon Lim, Yirang Kim, Kyohee Wang, Hyounggun
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title	Revisit to Incremental Housing Focusing on the Role of a Comprehensive Community Centre : The Case of Jinja, Uganda
title_short	Revisit to Incremental Housing Focusing on the Role of a Comprehensive Community Centre : The Case of Jinja, Uganda
title_full	Revisit to Incremental Housing Focusing on the Role of a Comprehensive Community Centre : The Case of Jinja, Uganda
title_fullStr	Revisit to Incremental Housing Focusing on the Role of a Comprehensive Community Centre : The Case of Jinja, Uganda
title_full_unstemmed	Revisit to Incremental Housing Focusing on the Role of a Comprehensive Community Centre : The Case of Jinja, Uganda
title_sort	revisit to incremental housing focusing on the role of a comprehensive community centre : the case of jinja, uganda
publisher	Taylor and Francis
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Revisit to Incremental Housing Focusing on the Role of a Comprehensive Community Centre : The Case of Jinja, Uganda

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