Print Email Facebook Twitter The provision of land for social housing in large urbanized areas in developing countries: The case of Istanbul Title The provision of land for social housing in large urbanized areas in developing countries: The case of Istanbul Author Turk, S.S. Korthals Altes, W.K. Faculty OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Department Geo-information and Land Development Date 2010-07-04 Abstract A large part of the population has no access to proper housing. This situation is most severe in large growing metropolises in the developing world, such as Istanbul, Turkey, where a third of the population is living in squatter housing. Typically there is a is a dual structure of both legal and illegal land development, where the legal sector is not able to provide land for housing development for the poor and middle-income population. A traditional role of government as regulator based on planning and building law does not change this. In Istanbul, the government has developed an investor role, next to the regulating role. National government has developed several institutions to provide affordable housing. The aim of the paper is to discuss the impact of planning and land policy and practices on land provision for social housing in Istanbul, and establishes whether the results may be of wider relevance for other large growing cities in developing countries. Subject social housingland provisionlarge urbanized areasTurkeyIstanbul To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f32e7690-fb87-4b95-8b2d-90424d5bdde4 Publisher Istanbul Technical University Source ENHR 2010 Conference: Urban Dynamics and Housing Change, WS-20, Istanbul, 4-7 July, 2010 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) The Author(s); Delft University of Technology Files PDF 264136.pdf 195.97 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f32e7690-fb87-4b95-8b2d-90424d5bdde4/datastream/OBJ/view