Public
Ownership of Urban Land and Low Income Home Ownership in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Solomon
Mulugeta
Abstract:
A
questionnaire survey was conducted among a group of factory workers in Addis
Ababa to assess the extent to which public ownership of land has promoted
low-income home ownership. The findings indicate that approximately one-fifth of
the respondents have become homeowners mainly due to the supply of free building
lots. Although reported interest in home ownership was quite high among the
remaining respondents, their attempts to take advantage of the supply of free
land have not been as impressive. Discriminant analysis results suggest that the
decision to file applications to secure building lots is mainly a function of
stages in the workers’ life cycle and the level of satisfaction in the quality
of their dwellings rather than of their awareness of the availability of free
land.
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