(2017-03) Territorial Planning and Anticipating Risk: Serviced Plots versus Social Housing

Government of Haiti, Comité Interministériel d'Aménagement du Territoire (CIAT) • 2017 • 8 pages

Summary — Rose-May Guignard of the CIAT setting serviced plots against social housing as the response to Haiti's housing need, presented to the Table Verte du Grand Sud in March 2017. Her context is disorderly growth already short of roads, water, sanitation, electricity, health care and schools before Matthew, and displaced and internally migrating populations after it.

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Key Findings

Poses the housing choice explicitly: build social housing units, or service land and let households build incrementally.
Pre-Matthew urban growth was already disorderly and short of roads, water, sanitation, electricity, health care and schools.
Post-Matthew, two demands arrived together: housing the disaster-affected and absorbing internal migration.
It is the servicing rather than the building that decides whether the resulting neighbourhood is liveable.

Full Description

This is the clearest statement of housing policy choice in the CIAT material, and it is a choice most Haitian housing discussion avoids. The alternative Guignard puts up is between building social housing units and providing serviced land, the trame assainie: laying out plots with road access, water, drainage and power and letting occupants build incrementally. Her framing establishes why the question is urgent rather than academic. Before Hurricane Matthew, urban growth was already disorderly and deficient in roads and services, water and sanitation, electricity, health care and education. After Matthew, two demands arrived at once, housing the disaster-affected and absorbing internal migration. The argument implicit in the pairing is one of arithmetic and speed: a social housing programme delivers a smaller number of finished units at higher unit cost, while servicing land delivers the framework for many more dwellings that households complete themselves, and it is the servicing, not the building, that determines whether the resulting neighbourhood is liveable. That is exactly the choice the neighbourhood-rehabilitation guide and the commune plans elsewhere in this collection assume without naming.

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Keywords

logement social, terrains viabilisés, trame assainie, croissance désordonnée, voirie, eau et assainissement, électricité, migration interne, sinistrés, cyclone Matthew, Table Verte, CIAT

Entities

CIAT, Rose-May Guignard, Table Verte du Grand Sud

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Aménagement du Territoire: Anticiper le risque Terrains viabilisés versus logement social Rose-May Guignard Contexte: Croissance désordonnée • Avant Mathew: Carences voirie, services: eau & assainissement, électricité, soins de santé, éducation • Post Mathew –Répondre aux besoins des populations sinistrées –Répondre à la migration interne Offre de logement social • Offre logement social, réponse ne réponds pas a la demande • Localisation basée sur disponibilité de terrains • Non-inclusion des services de base: eau, assainissement, gestion déchets, équipements communautaires Trame assainie: solution pour les familles et les villes • Voirie • Eau • Assainissement approprié • Gestion déchets • 33% espace public • Espaces collectifs (école, salle communautaire, soins de santé) Une solution Trame assainie pour 100 ménages La solution logement dans le cadre de projet de trame assainie Ce qui marche: • Assistance à la reconstruction avec formation des ouvriers, • Accès aux matériaux de construction de qualité • Assistance conditionnée aux normes: gestion de risque et extension planifiée ACAPE, Les Cayes Haven, Ouanaminthe La solution à long terme pour les villes Structuration à long terme des villes de manière compacte est la solution durable Merci de votre attention