Think Twice: To Provide or to Enable

Synopsis: Critically reviews the history of government intervention in the housing sector over the previous 30 years. Exposes the misconceptions behind these interventions and the negative impact they have had on the shelter conditions of the poor in the developing world. Prepared as an introduction to the enabling approach that is at the core of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the year 2000, the programme argues that no sustainable solutions to shelter can be achieved without the concerted involvement of communities, the private sector and government agencies and local authorities that are willing to make housing delivery systems work more efficiently.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 21 min.
Year of production: 1991
Availability: Sale; 2000 sale: US$25.00 (VHS PAL)
Subjects: Development studies
Keywords: developing countries; housing

Name: United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat)
Email: videos@unchs.org
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Phone: +254 2 7621 234
Fax: +254 2 7624 266
Address: PO Box 30030
GPO
Nairobi
00100
Kenya

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