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Lalith Lankatilleke
UN-HABITAT
PEOPLE’S PROCESS OF HOUSING
• Originated in Sri Lanka in the Million Houses Programme in 1984
Decision Making
Action
Responsibility
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INNOVATIVE METHODS OF SUPPORT
• Housing Options and Loans Package (HOLP)
• Community Surveys
• Community Contracting
• Community Monitoring
• Tenure Rights
• Could we a set new Global Target as Shelter for All by 2025 announced by Hon
Minister Sajith Premadasa?
• Sri Lankan professionals took the message to the world with remarkable success
• Reputed academic institutions like MIT, DPU researched and promoted The
People’s Process.
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MHP’S GLOBAL IMPACT
• UN-HABITAT implements 85% of its work through Community Contracts
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COMMUNITY ACTION PLANNING
SOUTH AFRICA 1995
Context
Nelson Mandela released in 1994
New democratic Govt. established in 1995
80% of cities were shack settlements
Housing for the majority was the main issue
“Constitutions and Policies don’t Build Houses: Deprofessionalizing Planning and Housing and
But People Do” Supporting a People’s Process in Africa:
South African Homeless Federation 1995 Lalith Lankatilleke 1995
SOUTH AFRICA 1995
Housing Subsidy Programme
• Contractors building tiny houses to replace the shacks
• Beneficiaries unhappy with the house provided by the contractors
• Introduced the People’s Process of Housing as an alternative
• Govt adopted the People’s Process in other development programmes
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PEOPLE’S PROCESS
REALIZATION THROUGH EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
PAKISTAN 2007
Post Earthquake Rural Housing Reconstruction Programme
• One of the most successful post disaster reconstruction programmes in the
world adopting the People’s Process
• Over 530,000 houses
• Over 530,000 werewere
houses rebuilt in 5inyears
rebuilt 5 years
• Of these 105,000 were built in traditional dhaji construction
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WHAT HAPPENED IN SRI LANKA IN
THE LAST TWO DECADES?????
• Housing received low priority; piecemeal projects
• While the urban poor lived under the treat of eviction, thus not
investing in the improvement of their housing
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2016: A NEW OPPORTUNITY TO LAUNCH A
PEOPLE’S HOUSING MOVEMENT
“We have to change the lives of people who are living in poverty besides luxury”
HE President Maithripala Sirisena 29 January 2016
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CONTEXTUALIZING THE NEW OPPORTUNITY
• A government committed to restore the rights of marginalized people
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LAUNCHING A
PEOPLE’S HOUSING MOVEMENT
Where do we start?
• The Platform for the People’s Housing Movement has been created
• Establish strong partnerships with the state sector and the private sector
• Design the programme with people, local governments and the private sector
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CURRENT PROBLEM
• Majority of urban poor lives on state land in poor and unsatisfactory
housing conditions
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ACTIONS REQUIRED
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PRINCIPLES
• Recognize the rights of people to location where they have been living
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RESOURCE & SUPPORT
PEOPLE
FRAMEWORK FOR Social capital
Mobilisation
Organisation
REGENERATION Savings
LAND MONEY
State x private sector
Financial institutions
Regeneration
State
Readjustment
Families
Mixed development
through planning
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PRIMARY PEOPLE
RESOURCE Motivation
Energy
Creativity
Bonding
SOCIAL
TRANSFORMATION
CAPITAL TO SOCIAL CAPITAL
Mobilisation
Organisation
Groups
Community Development Councils
Savings and credit
Planning
Action for their own development 22 - 27
SECONDARY LAND
RESOURCE
State
People
Private sector
OPTIMISATION
THROUGH Use value for people
PLANNING & Market value to raise capital
DESIGN
Readjustment
Mixed use of housing and
commercial for a ranging of
income groups, offices and
services 23 - 27
TERTIARY MONEY
Savings
Loans
Cross-subsidies
Rent
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COMPONENTS OF THE
URBAN HOUSING PROGRAMME
③ Incentivizing rental housing by the state, private sector and individual families
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SYNERGY OF RESOURCES
Human Corporate
Capital Capital
Social State
Capital Capital
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"
“No matter how many times a spider's web is torn down by wind and rain,
the spider repeatedly rebuilds its web with exquisite efficiency and
precision, for the spider has the freedom to build; no bureaucrats and
professionals standing in the way"
Lalith Lankatilleke
Thank You
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