Valuing Urban Slum Improvements in Visakhapatnam, India

Peter Abelson
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Peter Abelson: Macquarie University

Chapter 7 in Project Appraisal and Valuation of the Environment, 1996, pp 146-178 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In India nearly 40 million people live in officially designated slums in cities with over a million residents. Although slum environments vary, they share some basic characteristics: very poor households, mostly living below official poverty lines; poor quality shelter, often temporary in structure; exceptional population densities and overcrowding; inadequate water supply; insanitary conditions; a high incidence of sickness; and short life expectancies. Many slum dwellers are illegal squatters living on the margin of society, without security of tenure, receiving few public services and vulnerable to the strongest members of the slum.

Keywords: House Price; Slum Area; Housing Corporation; Housing Improvement; Project Appraisal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230374744_7

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