THE ROLE OF THE INHABITANTS' PARTICIPATION IN THE ELIMINATION OF PRECARIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS IN M'SILA CITY
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2019
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This paper highlight on the RHP (Résorption de l'Habitat Précaire) as a national strategy to
absorb precarious housing by assessing the results that are achieved by the program, as well as the role
of inhabitants' participation in the success of urban development and urban improvement in the
Algerian city. RHP is a program financed and chartered by The International Bank for Reconstruction
and Development to help developing countries. Algeria is one of those countries that benefited from
this program, which seeks to reform precarious areas from the inside by involving its population in the
process, rather than solutions based on confronting the situation from outside, by distributing housing
or similar solutions.According to the faltering progress of the RHP projects in the field, the Algerian
government was forced to acknowledge the failed of the program due to several obstacles, which
eventually stopped it, to be compensated by other programs, but without any avail, that made the
goverment back again to RHP program (based on the participation population in it) with funding from
the National Housing Fund in 2011, which benefited the city of M'sila from it. In this study, we will
examine the neighborhood of Ichbilia as a case study because of its specific characteristics (location,
population ...) without other precarious neighborhoods in the M'sila city. This study was based on a
methodological interview with the beneficiaries of the RHP program on the one hand, and with all the
actors in the process from public authorities and study offices on the other hand.
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Algerian Journal of Engineering Architecture and Urbanism, 2019
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Population Participation, Precarious Housing, RHP Program, Urban Improvement, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development