Squatter Settlement Improvements

Squatter Settlement Improvements

1. Site & Service schemes

   • People pay a small amount of rent for a site, and they can borrow money to buy building materials to build or improve a house on their plot. The rent money is then used to provide basic services for the area. An example is the Dandora scheme in Nairobi, Kenya.

2. Local Authority Schemes

   • These are funded by the local Government and about improving the temporary accommodation built by residents. For example, the citry of Rio (Brazil) spent $120 million on the Favela-Bairro project, which aimes to improve like in inhabitants of Rio De Janeiros Favelas

3. Aided Self Help schemes

   • These involve the Government and Local People working together to improve life in the settlement. The Government supplies building material and local people use them to build their own homes. This helps to provide better houseing and the money saved on loabour can be used to provide basic services like electrisity and sewage.

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