Improving Squatter Settlements

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Improving Squatter Settlements
- Site and Service
  - people pay a small amount of rent for a site and they can borrow money to buy building materials to build or improve a house on their plot
  - a more formal way of helping squatter settlement residents
- Self-help schemes
  - the government supplies the materials and local people have to build their own homes
  - local people have upgraded their homes by adding brick and tile.
    - Local authorities have accepted these improvements and added electricity, paved and lit some of the steeper streets and added more water pipes
- Local Authority Schemes
  - funded by local government and are about improving the temporary accomodation
  - there can be large-scale improvements or new towns may be built
the government supplies the materials and local people have to build their own homes

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