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Housing and Urban Planning

Housing and Urban Planning. Housing and Urban Planning. Introduction MARRI > WT II Partners. Intro 2004: HPPD Montenegro Informal Settlements Follow-up actions Mid-term actions. Activities in 2004 Housing Programme Development, Montenegro

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Housing and Urban Planning

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  1. Housing and Urban Planning

  2. Housing and Urban Planning • Introduction • MARRI > WT II • Partners Intro 2004: HPPD Montenegro Informal Settlements Follow-up actions Mid-term actions • Activities in 2004 • Housing Programme Development, Montenegro • Regional approach to Informal Settlements • Resolution & prevention of informal settlements • Housing/Urban Management capacity building

  3. Housing and Urban Planning • Activities in 2004 • Housing Programme Development, Montenegro • Ministry of Environmental Protection & Urban Planning (MEUP) • 1st national roundtable (July 2004) • 4 thematic working sessions with 4 working groups > Issue & position papers • 2nd national roundtable (Dec 2004) > Draft HP • GoM approval Intro 2004:HPPD Montenegro Informal Settlements Follow-up actions Mid-term actions

  4. Housing and Urban Planning • Activities in 2004 • Housing Programme Development, Montenegro Intro 2004:HPPD Montenegro Informal Settlements Follow-up actions Mid-term actions

  5. Housing and Urban Planning Informal Settlements • Definition (Vienna Declaration) • Settlements, which for a variety of reasons do not meet requirements for legal recognition • Informal or insecure land tenure, inadequate access to basic services, both social & physical infrastructure and housing finance. • Significant regional diversity in terms of their manifestation Intro 2004:HPPD Montenegro Informal Settlements Follow-up actions Mid-term actions

  6. Housing and Urban Planning • Informal Settlements • Root causes • Rapid urbanisation (rural-urban migration) • Public sector failure in housing sector • Access to housing • Land information & registration • Access to housing finance • Inadequate frameworks & procedures • Inappropriate urban planning methods • Human/finacial capacity constraints Intro 2004:HPPD Montenegro Informal Settlements Follow-up actions Mid-term actions

  7. Housing and Urban Planning • Informal Settlements • Informal Settlements > Physical expression • Unplanned, spontaneous housing development expressed in variety of typologies: • Poverty issue > basic shelter need • Fringes of cities • Pass over of procedures • Fringes of cities / Inner city locations • Unlawful investments • Inner city location / Scenic attraction Intro 2004:HPPD Montenegro Informal Settlements Follow-up actions Mid-term actions

  8. 1994 1 2 3 4 2000 Urban growth (Tirana) Steps of illegal land occupation Bathore informal settlements (Greater Tirana area) Informal housing in Montenegro (Podgorica) Public resistance / participation (Albania) … and informal housing in Montenegro (Podgorica / Bar) Unplanned settlements (Sarajevo / Podgorica) & illegal electricity connection Urban slums (Belgrade) Housing and Urban Planning

  9. 1994 1 2 3 4 2000 Steps of illegal land occupation Bathore informal settlements (Greater Tirana area) Informal housing in Montenegro (Podgorica) Public resistance / participation (Albania) … and informal housing in Montenegro (Podgorica / Bar) Unplanned settlements (Sarajevo / Podgorica) & illegal electricity connection Urban slums (Belgrade) Housing and Urban Planning

  10. 1 2 3 4 Steps of illegal land occupation Informal housing in Montenegro (Podgorica) Public resistance / participation (Albania) … and informal housing in Montenegro (Podgorica / Bar) Unplanned settlements (Sarajevo / Podgorica) & illegal electricity connection Urban slums (Belgrade) Housing and Urban Planning

  11. Public resistance / participation (Albania) Unplanned settlements (Sarajevo / Podgorica) & illegal electricity connection Urban slums (Belgrade) Housing and Urban Planning

  12. Informal housing in Montenegro (Podgorica) Public resistance / participation (Albania) Unplanned settlements (Sarajevo / Podgorica) & illegal electricity connection Urban slums (Belgrade) Housing and Urban Planning

  13. Informal housing in Montenegro (Podgorica) Public resistance / participation (Albania) … and informal housing in Montenegro (Podgorica / Bar) Unplanned settlements (Sarajevo / Podgorica) & illegal electricity connection Urban slums (Belgrade) Housing and Urban Planning

  14. Unplanned settlements (Sarajevo / Podgorica) & illegal electricity connection Housing and Urban Planning

  15. Public resistance / participation (Albania) Unplanned settlements (Sarajevo / Podgorica) & illegal electricity connection Housing and Urban Planning

  16. Housing and Urban Planning • Informal Settlements • Informal Settlements > Related problems Intro 2004:HPPD Montenegro Informal Settlements Follow-up actions Mid-term actions • Informal dwellers • + Dwelling • - Access to urban services • Access to social infrastructure • Tenure security (Eviction or demolition, recognition of basic rights) • Dwelling not considered an economic asset / collateral • - Danger of socio-economic segregation • Public sector • - Urban sprawl • - High infrastructure costs • - Revenue (tax, fees) • Informal economy • Public resistance • - Environmental issues • Vital urban (and overall economic) development hampered > Resolution of backlog & prevention through implementation of responsive policies & programmes

  17. Housing and Urban Planning • Activities in 2004 • Regional two-level approach & Ministerial Intro 2004:HPPD Montenegro Informal Settlements Follow-up actions Mid-term actions • Committment & National policy development • Implementation: Regional concept for housing & urban management capacity building (gov/mun) Vienna Declaration Ministerial conference on informal settlements in SEE 28 Sept – 01 Oct 2004 NAT Regional Capacity Building Capacity Assessment > Report LOC

  18. Housing and Urban Planning • Activities in 2004 • Conclusions of Ministerial Conference Intro 2004:HPPD Montenegro Informal Settlements Follow-up actions Mid-term actions • Different types of informal settlements • Planning processes action oriented • Financial opportunities for infrastructure upgrading • Legal framework to be utilised as best as possible • Capacity building • Conference on municipal management and decentralisation

  19. Housing and Urban Planning • Follow-up actions (Conference) • General • Summary proceedings / conclusions • Online publication of presentations & conclusions • Analysis & evaluation > publication early 2005 • Follow-up meeting in early 2005 (Podgorica?) • Discussion of regional conference on urban management (earmarked for late 2005) with potential partners Intro 2004: HPPD Montenegro Informal Settlements Follow-up actions Mid-term actions

  20. Housing and Urban Planning • Follow-up actions (Conference) • Capacity Building Instrument • Draft programme proposal by end-Nov 2004 • Establish Peer Review Group in December 2004 • Timeframe for final programme prop.: end of 2004 • Approval of final programme proposal by regional partners in early 2005 Intro 2004: HPPD Montenegro Informal Settlements Follow-up actions Mid-term actions

  21. Housing and Urban Planning • Follow-up actions (Conference) • Capacity Building Instrument Intro 2004: HPPD Montenegro Informal Settlements Follow-up actions Mid-term actions

  22. Housing and Urban Planning • Mid-term actions • Government of Macedonia • Support national housing policy action plan • Government of Serbia • Support housing policy and programme development • UN-Habitat • Structural co-operation in region (capacity building, joint fundraising) • CEB • Discussion of SP Housing support in preparation of feasibility studies for CEB housing loans Intro 2004: HPPD Montenegro Informal Settlements Follow-up actions Mid-term actions

  23. Housing and Urban Planning Intro 2004: HPPD Montenegro Informal Settlements Follow-up actions Mid-term actions Thank You

  24. Housing and Urban Planning Intro 2004: HPPD Montenegro Informal Settlements Follow-up actions Mid-term actions

  25. Housing and Urban Planning Intro 2004: HPPD Montenegro Informal Settlements Follow-up actions Mid-term actions

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