THE RE-HOUSING PROGRAMME – VISIBLE AND HIDDEN FACTORS THAT INFLUENCED IT

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to find the factors influencing the views about the re-housing programme of the sustainable townships programme. This study is based on the data collected for the socio-economic survey of the underserved settlements in the city of Colombo by the clean settlement project unit in 1998 and the personal interviews. The univariate analysis is done to find the association between the response variable and the explanatory variables and measure the association if any. The Chi-square test for independence and odds ratios are used. The last step of this study is to fit a generalized logistic regression model for this data. The best model selected by the forward stepwise method has 15 explanatory variables, which mostly influence the decision of agreeing or disagreeing to the re-housing programme. According to the analysis it can be concluded that as the visible factors the majority of the settlers agree to move away from the places they are currently living in. The settlers were agreeable to move to new places with better conditions and for which they get a legal ownership. An improved social and health environment than the current locality for their children is another main expectation for them. Among the different views about various factors, their main concern was to get a house with infrastructural facilities located close to the city of Colombo. There are many other hidden factors such as informal businesses and the locations for formal business.

Keywords: Location, Re-housing, Under Served Settlement

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