| dc.description.abstract | The study aimed at assessing the impact of slums on residential property development in Nakawa
Division. The study focused on four objectives to assess the impact; to establish the
characteristics of slums in the study area; to determine the factors that influence developers when
investing in slums; to analyze whether investment in slums is a viable venture and to recommend
the best and possible strategy towards development in the slum areas.
In order to obtain the primary data, the research employed open and closed questionnaires where
121 questionnaires were given to slum households and 30 to real estate developers in Kampala
Districts.
Currently slum settlements taken as the case study are characterized by a high rate of
unemployment, lack of road infrastructure, poor drainage, and improper disposal of wastes. Unregistered
land best characterizes these slums. Good tenure system is most essential factor for
real estate development where the land titles are provided to the public cheaply and with ease so
that the slum dwellers can also access these services. Provision of land titles to the settlers is the
factor that encourages more development; this can be through carrying systematic demarcation.
Currently venturing in slum investment is not a viable venture because the affordability rate is
low. The classes of people living in slums are the poor who cannot afford high prices of goods,
services and a high standard of living. Lots of developers support this point to be true. The
demand for houses by the intended users is low.
Slums residents should never be evicted because even if the government does, they settle in some
other area hence introducing another slum. Therefore the government should consider slum
upgrading because at the end of the day the real estate sector will be attracted to organized area
or area ripe for development. This links improvement strategies to a sustainable development in
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