Urban Slums and Katchi Abadis…

Incremental Housing Program

Khuda Ki Basti,

Hyderabad,

Karachi

Lahore

One out of six

people live in slums

in the world.

Urban Growth and Housing

Need in Pakistan

•Current backlog of 8-9 million housing units.

•More than 300, 000 housing units needed per year.

•35% of urban population live in slums

•50% urban population lives in one room houses

Public Sector and Housing

(i) Affordability

(ii) Inappropriate Targeting

(iii) Allotment – Handing over Time Lag

(iv) Complicated Procedures

(v) No Social Services

Informal Sector and Housing

(i) Simple Process

(ii) Occupation of State Land

(iii) Handing Over is Easy

(iv) Affordability

(v) Compatible with Sociology of the Poor

Sequence is Important

Type of

housing

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4

Conventional

style housing

Land Infrastructure Housing People

Site &

services

Land Infrastructure People Housing

Incremental

housing

Land People Housing Infrastructure

Ideal solution People Land Housing Infrastructure

Incremental Housing Scheme

Formalize Informal Sector Approach.

Incremental Housing -easily replicable: it is simple -sustainable: community is involved -- ownership: access to tenured land -- affordable because it is self financing

How do we

respond? How to Solve Housing Problem in

Pakistan?

Reception Area

Possession of Plot

Building Clinic

Water Supply

Arrangements

Transport Facility

Day 1: Allocated Plot

Type of Houses

Construction Process

Health Care

Education

Development Works

Commercial Activities

Cottage Industry

Plantation

Incremental Development

INNOVATION IN THE IDEA

KHUDA KI BASTI – 4

KALA SHAH KAKU

IMPORTANT FEATURES

• Established on private land

• Executed purely by NGOs

• Financial support (loan) for purchase of

land provided by a financial institution

• Provision of built up units

• Facility of house building / purchase loan

by HBFC & AKHUWAT

INAUGURATION OF SITE

OFFICE

LAND USE PLAN

LAYOUT PLAN

ARRIVAL OF FIRST FAMILY

Very first resident of

khuda ki basti-4 was a

Lady named by Madam

Nazli

INCREMENTAL HOUSING

DEVELOPMENT

INCREMENTAL

INFRASTRUCTURE

DEVELOPMENT

SELF HELP CONSTRUCTION

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

IN GREEN ENVIRONMENT

Community Development

ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY

SEWRAGE SYSTEM

HEALTH FACILITIES

EDUCATION

at initial stage

EDUCATION

at present stage

JASN-E-BAHARAN

RECREATION

CHILDREN LEISURE

MARKET

MAIN PARK

BLOCK PARKS

Jamia Masjid Obaidullah Sindhi

THANKS