Security of tenure and laws: the case of Cairo’s squatter1 areas
| dc.contributor.author | Alfiky, Mohammed | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-11T12:59:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-11T12:59:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.description.abstract | For decades, security of tenure has been a problem to most of the developing countries. Almost 50% of developing world urban residents lack legal documents for the tenure security (Payne et al. 2012; Alfiky 2014). Based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adequate housing is essential to achieve an adequate standard of living (United Nations 1999). The right to adequate housing should be enforced with the provision of legal access to land, effective use of land and protection from forced eviction that is obliged by the international law (United Nations 1999, UN- Habitat 2008, Payne et al. 2012). Legal or secure access to land is the opportunity of people to occupy or use the land either permanently or temporally for shelter, economic and productive activities (UN-Habitat 2008). Secure access to land encourages people to invest in land and develop economic activities (ibid). | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-85-7785-551-1 | |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 246-247 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2645 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All Rights Reserved | en |
| dc.source | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.title | Security of tenure and laws: the case of Cairo’s squatter1 areas | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion |