Cost of being a slum dweller in Nairobi: Living under dismal conditions but still paying a housing rent premium

2018 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 42-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debabrata Talukdar
Keyword(s):  
Slum Dweller

Rehousing the slum dweller is not enough

1934 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 667-671
Author(s):  
Beatrice Greenfield Rosahn
Keyword(s):  
Slum Dweller

The rise of humanitarian architecture

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Charlesworth
Keyword(s):  
Slum Dweller ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Complex Projects ◽  
Post Disaster ◽  
Humanitarian Work

I started feeling – and subsequently expressing – that I did not want to be that kind of architect practising that type of architecture, as I had been previously trained. I wanted to work in the villages for the non-rich. I wanted to serve not the conventional but the alternative client, the un-served client: the villager, the slum dweller, the poor, and the marginalised.Why should architects be involved in humanitarian work and the often-complex projects needed to deal with the recovery of post-disaster emergencies? How can the design profession contribute to the longterm reconstruction processes needed to ensure the effective rebuilding of vulnerable communities after disaster?

Comprehending the Slum-Dweller: Affect and A Child of the Jago

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-43
Author(s):  
Arlene Young
Keyword(s):  
Slum Dweller

AIDS awareness in an Indian metropolitan slum dweller : A KAP (knowledge, attitude, practice) study

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 66 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Sivapathasundharam ◽  
TBertin A Einstein ◽  
M Kalasagar
Keyword(s):  
Slum Dweller ◽  
Aids Awareness ◽  
Practice Study

scholarly journals Poverty no longer compounded daily: SDI’s efforts to address the poverty penalty built into housing microfinance

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Bolnick
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Community Mobilization ◽  
Slum Dweller ◽  
Full Cost ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
Sustainable Projects ◽  
Full Cost Recovery

The network of slum dweller federations known as SDI has innovated a form of local financing derived from the collective savings of urban poor groups. This addresses three shortcomings of conventional microfinance: its inability to reach very low-income people, its limited role in community mobilization for longer-term social change, and its constraints in terms of leveraging subsidies from the state and the market. SDI’s national and international urban poor funds have been used, among other purposes, for providing basic services and upgrading homes in informal settlements. Further, SDI’s model of federating urban poor communities and their funds at city, national and international levels has enabled mature federations, capable of financially sustainable projects, to cross-subsidize learning and precedent-setting projects in which full cost recovery is not feasible. This produces an outcome whereby the combined portfolios of all the national funds are able to match financial outflows with inflows. At the same time, the federations that co-manage these funds and the projects that they finance are able to escalate the production of social capital amongst the urban poor and to generate impact through changed relationships with government.

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