The Integrated Housing Development Programme
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2.1 Overview, origins and significance of the programme The Integrated Housing Development Programme (IHDP) is a government-led and financed housing provision programme for low-and middle-income households in Ethiopia. The programme was launched in 2004 (1996 in the Ethiopian calendar) by State Minister Oqubay Arkebe, then the Mayor of Addis Ababa. Within the IHDP, specific projects are undertaken on either brown-field sites or slum areas that are cleared and residents re-housed. The common attribute of each project is the type of housing developed, condominium housing: multi-storied housing units for several households where communal areas are jointly owned and managed (see Boxed Text 1). The IHDP has impressive targets. The mandate of the IHDP is to reduce slum areas in the city by 50 per cent and address and improve the unemployment percentage in the capital within five years, through the building of nearly 400,000 new units nationally. As of mid-2010, the government had built a total of 80,257 housing units in Addis Ababa (Table 3). Origins State Minister Oqubay Arkebe was the driving force behind the programme during his time as Mayor of Addis Ababa between 2003 and 2005. His main goal was to build low-cost housing in Addis Ababa. He made a proposal to the German Technical Corporation (GTZ) office to which they responded by setting up an office in Addis Ababa and commencing the design of the pilot condominium housing project in the neighbourhood of Bole Gerji.
chapter two the condominium housing programme in ethiopia
Contents 2.1 Overview, origins and significance of the programme 2.2 Programme Design 2.3 Project Design 2.4 Case studies
The pilot project consisted of 750 residential units along with office and commercial units. GTZ managed the project on behalf of the city government and the project was extremely successful in terms of cost and time. When the government suggested building upwards of 40,000 houses every year, GTZ declined to continue their direct involvement with project design and implementation, instead taking an advisory role. To achieve such ambitious targets, GTZ recommended that the government create a new office specifically for housing development, which they did in 2005 by establishing the Addis Ababa Housing Development Project Office (HDPO).
Condominium Housing in ethiopia
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