The impact of water and sanitation access on housing values: The case of Dapaong, Togo

Eric Kere, Johanna Choumert-Nkolo and Amandine Laré-Dondarini

No 201403, Working Papers from CERDI

Abstract: The international community has made a commitment that aims to halve, by 2015, the number of people without access to safe drinking water and hygienic sanitation systems. In Togo, the government struggles to provide the population with access to water and sanitation, despite a proactive policy. We argue that a connection to safe water and sanitation increases housing values. Using collected data from the city of Dapaong, we develop a hedonic price model to capture the relationship between housing values and their characteristics. Our results support the need to accompany any investment in access to water and sanitation with real estate policies, so that the poorest households remain beneficiaries of the pro-poor policies.

Keywords: Africa; Latrines; Millennium Development Goals; Hedonic price; Multi-level model; Variance components model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N57 O18 O2 Q25 R21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32
Date: 2014
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