The Significance of Community Training Centers in Building Affordable Housing and Developing Settlements

Jan Bredenoord, Joon Park and Kyohee Kim
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Jan Bredenoord: International Urban Planner/Housing Researcher, 3823 CL Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Joon Park: International School of Urban Sciences, University of Seoul, Seoul 02504, Korea
Kyohee Kim: Department of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 7, 1-22

Abstract: This paper examines the visions and the roles of community training centers (CTCs) in community development and housing provision in developing countries from the perspective of assisted self-help housing. It reviews a Korean community center that contributed to community-led self-help housing for low-income groups in the 1970s. It also reviews a few notable CTCs from India, Uganda, Nepal, and three countries in Central America to examine the functions and contributions of the CTCs. It was found that CTCs play a central role in community empowerment and the production of affordable building materials receiving technical or financial assistance from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and governments. The paper makes a compelling case for CTCs by drawing on these exemplary cases to provide a development model that has the potential to facilitate the improvement of the living environment in developing countries.

Keywords: community participation; community center; community training center; sustainable building material; low-cost housing; assisted self-help housing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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