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What is the scheme? |
* councils provide materials for slum dwellers to improve their houses, e.g. concrete for walls, roof tiles * standpipes, toilets blocks, waste collection points * health centres and schools --> slum slowly becomes better quality * slum dwellers given legal ownership of land |
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Where? |
Has happened in Dharavi |
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Pros |
* improves social and environmental conditions * cheaper and quicker than building every resident a proper house or rehousing them * keeps communities together * don't need to find new sites of land |
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Cons |
* would cost a lot for city authorities to build health centres and schools * won't get rid of problems --> sanitation cannot easily be improved for existing housing * encourages illegal squatting * can only give legal ownership to people on land the council owns * cannot help everyone due to scale of problem * slum will remain in unplanned state * slum dwellers sell materials |
