Rental Housing - UN-Habitat

OntologicalsecurityOwner‘Pirate’urbanizationSecure tenureSelf-helphousingShared housingOne of several concepts suggesting that people need morethan just adequate sustenance and shelter to live happy andfulfilled lives. “They also need a secure base to which theycan return if in trouble or fatigued. This base could be apersonality trait, such as an inner sense of confidence orhardiness, a loving person such as a caregiver or partner orsimply the normal routine of everyday life. It has furtherbeen argued that the home could function as a securebase…” (Hiscock and others, 2001: 50). According toSaunders (1990) owners are supposed to feel it but rentersnot.Those with legal or de facto right to occupy, let, use ordispose of a dwelling. This includes those who are in theprocess of acquiring the right to ownership (e.g., throughpayments on a mortgage).Term used in Colombia to describe self-help settlementsdeveloped with no or only partial services, without buildinglicences and without the approval of the planning authorities.The difference with invasions is that the settlers normallybuy the right to occupy a plot of land from the sub-divider.The sub-divider may or may not actually own the land.“[T]he right of all individuals and groups to effectiveprotection by the State against unlawful evictions” (UN-HABITAT, 2002d: 6).A synonym for informal or spontaneous housing.“The sharing of a one-kitchen dwelling unit by two or moreunrelated adults with or without children.” In most countriesof Africa and Asia, this definition is too limiting. Many adultchildren with their partners and children often share part ofthe home, or even the lot, with their parents, and vice versa.In places, and particularly in West Africa, sharing involves amuch wider set of kin. The key difference with renting is thatthere is rarely a regular rental payment, although money isfrequently offered to cover the costs of services and generalexpenses. One of the key characteristics of shared housing isthat it is highly flexible. Sharer families include both householdssharing a property with the owners, but not formingpart of the owner’s household, and households living as partof an extended household, in any kind of tenure, withoutbeing the householders.Contentsxv