Informal settlement

Assembled from 15 blocks · 1 evidence · 8 related

1. Story
2. Housing built and occupied outside the formal system of land title, planning permission and building control — which is how a very large share of the world's urban population is housed. UN-Habitat's estimate for the end of 2024 is that more than 1.1 billion people live in slums and informal settlements, within a broader 1.6 billion in inadequate housing, plus roughly 300 million with no stable shelter at all. The word covers extremely different things: consolidated neighbourhoods forty years old with electricity, shops and second storeys; recent peripheral occupations with no services; and waterfront settlements on land nobody has formally allocated. What they share is not poverty of construction but absence of recorded right, and that absence is what determines whether a household will invest in its own roof, whether a utility will extend a pipe to it, and whether a municipality will collect anything from it. Informality is therefore best read as a legal and fiscal condition with physical consequences, not as a description of building quality.
3. Knowledge
4. Informal settlement
5. Land tenure security
6. Connections
7. Land tenure security
8. Urban housing supply
9. Makoko
10. Informal settlement
11. Urban housing supply
12. Lagos State demolishes part of Makoko
13. Makoko is cleared again, and the legislature stops it
14. Evidence
15. Supports the estimate of more than 1.1 billion people in slums and informal settlements within 1.6 billion in inadequate housing, and the figure of about 62 per cent of African urban dwellings being informal. V55 verification basis: retrieved from UN-Habitat and UN News summaries rather than from the report itself, which could not be opened; the definitional basis of the slum estimate was not inspected.