ABSTRACT A common challenge faced by countries in the developing world is to provide public goods such as housing and safe water and sanitation to rapidly expanding and poor populations in urban areas. This is a particularly acute problem when the process of governing is accompanied by unplanned urban population growth and the displacement of the urban poor while pursuing market-oriented development strategies without proper safety nets for them. The purpose of this essay is to critically assess the plight of the city Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in its efforts to address this issue over the past decade. The study, based upon field research conducted in 2015, concludes that while having had success in expanding the availability of the quantity and quality of low-income housing, the urban housing development programme has largely failed to directly address the housing needs of the poorest of the poor. In large measure, this is due to the enormity of the problem coupled with the limited capacity of local governance; issues relating to shortcoming in project design and planning; and conflicting objectives of different national planning units.

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埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴的城市快速扩张和扶贫住房的挑战

摘要发展中世界各国面临的共同挑战是向迅速扩大的城市地区和贫困人口提供住房，安全饮水和卫生设施等公共物品。当执政过程伴随着计划外的城市人口增长和城市贫民的流离失所，同时又推行了以市场为导向的发展战略而又没有适当的安全网时，这将是一个特别严重的问题。本文的目的是批判性地评估埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴市过去十年来为解决这一问题所做的努力。该研究基于2015年进行的实地研究得出的结论是，尽管在扩大低收入住房数量和质量的可获得性方面取得了成功，城市住房发展计划在很大程度上未能直接解决穷人中最穷人的住房需求。在很大程度上，这是由于问题的严重性以及地方治理能力有限所致；与项目设计和规划的缺陷有关的问题；和不同的国家计划部门的目标相互矛盾。