Squatting in Algeria
InAlgeria,the high cost of housing leads toinformal settlements,many of which are onsquattedland.[1]Another factor causing squatting has been displacement, since during theAlgerian Warof 1954 until 1962 up to 2.5 million people were forcibly resettled.[2]The Directorate for Planning and Construction (DUC) announced in 2007 that there were 3,612 buildings in more than 104 informal settlements across the province ofTizi Ouzou.[3]
Migrants fromSub-Saharan Africahead to Algeria and settle in informal settlements. Many gather at the southern city ofTamanrasset.Between 2016 and 2019, over 100 squats were destroyed in the neighbourhood of Gaat el Oued alone.[4]
References
[edit]- ^Bellal, Tahar (2009)."Housing supply in Algeria: Affordability matters rather than availability"(PDF).Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management.3(12): 109–110.
- ^Feichtinger, Moritz (January 2017). "'A Great Reformatory': Social Planning and Strategic Resettlement in Late Colonial Kenya and Algeria, 1952–63 ".Journal of Contemporary History.52(1): 45–72.doi:10.1177/0022009415616867.S2CID159532876.
- ^"Algeria: 270 Squatter Families to Be Resettled in Tizi-Ouzou".NAU.16 December 2011.
- ^Farrah, Raouf (2020)."Algeria's Migration Dilemma"(PDF).Global Initiative.p. 17.Retrieved24 December2021.
Further reading
[edit]- Parks, Robert P. (24 November 2019). "Claiming Bits and Pieces of the State: Squatting and Appropriation of Public Domain in Algeria".Middle East Law and Governance.11(2): 103–135.doi:10.1163/18763375-01102002.S2CID213747236.
