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International Alliance of Inhabitants

The International Alliance of Inhabitants is a global network of associations and social movements of inhabitants, cooperatives, communities, tenants, house owners, homeless, slum dwellers, indigenous populations and people from working class neighbourhoods.

The objective is the construction of another possible world starting from the achievement of the housing and city rights.

Workgroup data
Proposals Paper (Inhabitants Organizations)	Proposal Paper (Urban Violence).
Documents	Experience Reports
Participants and Interested Persons	Forum (closed).

:: Articles ::

Millions Residents Relocation
:: Zhang Min 张敏 :: February 2007 ::

Improvement of Living Condition of the People in Temporary Housing Since 1983, with a large scale of urban development, there were millions of Shanghai residents who relocated their home. The size of the population relocated is equivalent with a middle size city. During 1980s, with the expansion of the investment channel, many enterprises and undertakings joined the urban renewal activities in downtown Shanghai. During 1980 to 1990, 16,1000 household relocated their homes. During the period, many households have to live in temporary housing with simple conditions because new housing (...)

Utilising Foreign Investment for Renovation of the Shack Area in Shanghai
:: Liu Yan Ping :: February 2007 ::

In the south-east of the 'Dapuqiao Area' in Shanghai, there is a group of new high-storied block tower which is magnificent and elegant. It is well-known Haihua Garden and Haixing Plaza in Shanghai. Since 1990, there were a group of simple slum dwellers in this area, it was one of the poorest areas in Shanghai, called 'Xiesan Area'. This area, from Xujiahui Road in the north to Yuntong Dyeing Factory in the south, from Dapu Road in the east to Rihui Dong Road in the west, has a total area of 3.49 hectares, 1300 households, about 30000 persons and 26 factories. The crowded slum-dwellers (...)

The African Charter of Partnership between the inhabitants and the local authorities
:: Pierre Calame :: May 2000 ::

The African Charter articulates a series of principals necessary to allow a thorough partnership between inhabitants and local authorities. The African Charter articulates a series of principals necessary to allow a thorough partnership between inhabitants and local authorities. These principals result from the comparison of various real experiences in Africa. This experiences' confrontation led to the idea that the conditions for a thorough partnership are everywhere identical. The charter has been elaborated during the inter-African forum (12 -16 of May, 2000), that welcomed a group (...)

The three feet of the pot (fascicle)
:: Karine Goasmat :: Françoise Feugas :: Teolinda Bolívar :: February 2000 ::

This document contains the guiding principles for a renewed local democracy and a partnership between the authorities and inhabitants/ city-dwellers. This document has been prepared for the West African inhabitants' meeting "Africités" in May 2000 and for the world conference on popular districts' inhabitants in Mexico City in October 2000. This article contains the guiding principles for a renewed local democracy and a partnership between the authorities and inhabitants/ city-dwellers. These principles have been elaborated during the 90s through several international encounters: Caracas (...)

The Million Houses Programme in Sri Lanka
:: Cécile Lacheret :: July 1994 ::

The Million Houses Programme (MHP)was the result of a critical consideration of the earlier programmes, in particular the Hundred Thousand Houses Programme (HTHP)(1972-1982). In reality a change in orientation was already observed in 1978. The policy applied between 1971 and 1977 was based on the principles of the operation of readjustment and of construction by the State, granting of loans to small builders and of land to private groups, but a "less friendly towards developers" attitude could be noted, producing very important results in Colombo. The HTPH started from the principle, (...)

Housing Development Scheme, Khuda Ki Basti, Pakistan :: July 1994 ::

Khuda Ki Basti (KKB), meaning God's Colony, represents a pioneering attempt on the part of Hyderabad Development Authority (HDA)to solve the housing problems of the lowest stratum of the urban poor. This scheme has been developed on a site near the Hyderabad Toll Plaza, in Kotri, which stretches over 5 500 acres with a lay out for 70 000 plots. Its objective is to help the shelterless acquire legal titles to residential lots, with a minimum affordable down payment, where the families can immediately construct their houses. Target group identification and plot allotment consists of four (...)

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