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What is the scheme?
* councils provide materials for slum dwellers to improve their houses, e.g. concrete for walls, roof tiles
* standpipes, toilets blocks, waste collection points
* health centres and schools --> slum slowly becomes better quality
* slum dwellers given legal ownership of land
Where?
Has happened in Dharavi
Pros
* improves social and environmental conditions
* cheaper and quicker than building every resident a proper house or rehousing them
* keeps communities together
* don't need to find new sites of land
Cons
* would cost a lot for city authorities to build health centres and schools
* won't get rid of problems --> sanitation cannot easily be improved for existing housing
* encourages illegal squatting
* can only give legal ownership to people on land the council owns
* cannot help everyone due to scale of problem
* slum will remain in unplanned state
* slum dwellers sell materials
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