Peri-urban informal rental housing market in Luanda
It's magnitude, characteristics and implications for poverty reduction strategies and programmes (scoping study of informal housing rental markets in peri-urban areas of Angola)
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Date of publication
november 2009
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IDRC:10625/40328
In Luanda, almost all tenants have the intention of eventually becoming house-owners, mainly due to perception that rental housing is insecure. Small landlords provide most of the housing stock. Research shows that few Governments, globally, give rented housing the attention that it deserves. Study recommendations encourage the government of Angola to examine its embryonic housing policy in terms of rental housing, and whether it encourages the self-help landlord to build for rent and improve the quality of the rental housing stock. Of Luanda’s total population (5.8 million), 15% are living in rented housing (780,000). Most new housing construction is high-end condominiums.
