| dc.description.abstract | The nature of the housing sector with its institutions, laws and regulations, is one that touches every single aspect of the economy of a country and has interface with practically every social development sector. People living in adequate homes have better health, higher chances to improve their human capital and seize the opportunities available in urban contexts. At the same time, a housing sector that performs well acts as a ‘development multiplier’ benefiting complementary industries, contributing to economic development, employment generation, service provision and overall poverty reduction. Broadly, for every job in the house-building sector, an additional 1.5 to 2 jobs are generally created in the construction materials and other input industries. The contributions of housing to urban prosperity are also evident. The UN-Habitat City Prosperity Initiative reveals indicates that inadequate housing has negative effects on several other dimensions of urban prosperity. Urban contexts with housing conditions below average experience poorer equity and inclusion, reduced urban safety and livelihood opportunities, and have neglected connectivity and provision of public space. Inadequate housing thus remains a global urban sustainability challenge, but also development opportunity. At the same time, the thematic area of ‘adequate housing’ and especially the term ‘slums’ - are often highly politicized. (UN Habitat 2016)
Informal settlements, slums and other poor residential neighborhoods are a global urban phenomenon. They exist in urban contexts all over the world, in various forms and typologies, dimensions, locations and by a range of names (squatter settlements, favelas, poblaciónes, shacks, barrios bajos, bidonvilles) Informal settlements and slums are caused by a range of interrelated factors, including population growth and rural-urban migration, lack of affordable housing for the urban poor, weak governance (particularly in the areas of policy, planning, land and urban management resulting in land speculation and grabbing), economic vulnerability and underpaid work, discrimination and marginalization, and displacement caused by conflict, natural disasters and climate change. Slums represent one of the most extreme forms of deprivation and exclusion and remain a critical factor for the persistence of poverty and exclusion in the world – indeed a challenge for sustainable and inclusive urbanization. Research shows that other forms of urban poverty in the form of informal settlements increasingly become a worldwide phenomenon found also in the developed world. (Habitat Ⅲ, 2016)
Kasokoso was initially occupied by former Ugandan president Idi Amin’s soldiers though shortly after Amin’s regime, it was taken over by sugarcane growers and brick layers who later started selling land to other people. The name Kasokoso was phrased from the Kiganda word Nsokolo, meaning remote and impassable. Many people feared this area because it was associated with a number of crimes including killings, theft and rape. The area gained stability in 2005 and people started settling in the area without being attacked. Residents of this area are from different origins as some were evicted from Naguru and Nsambya and ended up in Kasokoso.According to the information and data that the researcher gathered from the literature review, the majority of the literature on housing conditions indicates that poverty and tenure instability are to blame for the emergence of poor housing conditions, and that the effectiveness of the government determines the types of developments and degree of physical planning in the neighborhood. However, despite the fact that the housing situation in Kasokoso has a more significant negative impact on the neighborhood's physical layout and orderly growth, it still provides low-income earners with access to affordable housing in some fashion. Therefore, there needs to be a major awareness campaign in the nation so that anyone who purchases a home in an informal settlement can use physical planning. | en_US |
