sustainable futures: housing presentation

8/8/2019 Sustainable Futures: Housing Presentation

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Sectoral theme paper byLisa Thompson-Smeddle

and Paul Hendler



• Politically located

• Defined sustainable housing

• Work in progress

- Sustainability indicators still to be developed

- Technologies and delivery mechanisms stillto be linked to indicators



• Implementation of current housing strategies canmarginalise the poor

• Political empowerment through independentgrassroots urban social movements is aprecondition for ecologically, socially, economicallyand financially sustainable housing

• Strategic proposals should enable communityempowerment

• Institutional delivery mechanisms: co-evolutionaryprocess between empowered users/ beneficiaries,government and private sector



• Long- term economic value ≥ total financial,environmental, social liabilities secured by the asset

• State and households able to afford operational andenvironmental costs

• Location, design and security should reflect perceivedvalue of market

• Households should demonstrate understanding ofabove

• (Implication: what delivery/housing management mechanisms best achieves above/ What balance between private ownership/alternative tenures?)



• Develop limits for maximum household consumption ofelectricity from non-renewable (e.g. coal) sources

• Develop indicators for separation of recycling of wetand solid household waste

• Defining permissable useage for potable water

• Define the frequency of occurrence of decentralisedsanitation systems

• Identifying carbon neutral building materials for housing



• Long-term economic value: annual yield vsmarket value

• Include estimate for social and environmentalliabilities on balance sheet

• Estimates of % of operational costs to be

afforded by state/households• Life cycle costs (externalities: health, pollution,etc)

• Consumer education about above?



• Water/sanitation supply/demand management- On site sewerage systems

- Grey water and water recycling- Rain water harvesting

- Low flush and low flow plumbing components

• Recycling of wastes and emissions- Separation and recycling of solid waste

- Water recycling

- Carbon neutral building materials



• Trade off between ownership and alternative tenurein terms of which is more likely to protect long-termasset value for the poor:

- Incremental formal housing- Subsidised housing (giveaways)- Social housing- Communal/transitional housing- Formalised home ownership (Gap)- Private rental market (formal and informal)- Employer housing- Various funding and delivery contractual mechanisms

along a spectrum of public/private involvement

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