The Decent House

Shelter and housing supply is the greatest burden for both executives and planners. It is not only to create provisions for developments and construction, but to adopt the supply channels to people’s earnings and financials.

For the Public Servants; there are moral and executive obligations to provide the public with decent housing. Real Estate sector in any balanced stable economy will represent 15-20% of the GDP. Spending on Real Estate will fairly consume 30% of anyone’s budget and income. The rank on the ladder of Property Ownership is the most significant estate a person would proudly have.

There are important classifications and definitions related to “The House” from a Real Estate context:

1. Dwelling: means any building or structure can be used as a home
2. House: is the place for residence or refuge
3. Townhouse: is a type of small footprint and medium-density housing in cities
4. Apartment: is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building
5. Condominium: is the form of housing tenure where a specified part is individually owned
6. Loft: refers to large adaptable open space, which includes upper open areas
7. Penthouse: is an apartment on the highest floor and typically differentiated by luxury features
8. Mansion: is a very large sprawling dwelling house
9. Cottage: is usually a modest, often cozy dwelling, typically in a rural or semi-rural location

Other forms which typical have insignificant real estate value, and can’t be called “House”:

1. Hut: are temporary shelter that are quickly built of readily available materials
2. Shack: is small cheaply made house, usually in a state of disrepair
3. Shade: is the blocking of sun light and heat by any object, in temperate and tropical zones
4. Tent: is a shelter from sheets of fabric draped over frame of poles and supporting rope

The “Decent House” for a family is never a Single Room, for many practical and convenient reasons. This fact draws the divide between nomads and others. Nomadic house is just a temporary shelter, which is continuously reshaped as per environment, climate and landscape. On the contrary, the “Decent House” is a permanent structure driven by cost, bylaws and amenities. Worldwide, there is great number of social attributes associated with the “Decent House”

Notably, availability of independent or shared utilities, sanitary or service facilities doesn’t affect the purpose of the “Decent House”. Certainly there are limits of decency associated with structuring of those utilities.

Islamically, there are “Four” provisions that a “Decent House” is indispensably required for:

1. Family Privacy apart from general sight and hear of others
2. Parents Privacy for their three predefined times during a day and night
3. Female Privacy for their uninterrupted personal and religious activities
4. Adolescence Privacy which contentedly separates Females from Males

Muslim City Managers and Public Executives should know that ignoring or mishandle these "Decent Housing" parameters; is an involuntary religious violation leading to unrecoverable family misappropriation and fragmentation.

Impact NGOs..

Great movie from a talented director.. but; what's next..?

Among human, animal and machine, returns are phenomenonal.. Human development is unachievable by government monopoly and reliance.. Therefore, NGOs were considered to fill the gaps, bringing change to the core substances..

NGOs are on three types, PR (Public Relations), Recovery and Impact.. Many who are active in Sudan are either PR or Recovery; while driven by imported approaches and priorities..

Despite the hilarious official modes; I think it is time to assemble local Impact ones; which would promote for the simple improvements in way of life among rural and slums.. It is not the cost, but the vision, the will and the know-how..

Once upon a time, I had quitted the political activities, disagreeing on the seriousness to help our folks.. People need simple actions, not the big ones, nor the talks..!!

We need to admit the lack of know-how, then we can get or learn.. but our vision and collective will are only ours, subject to how authentic we are..!!

Mobile Classroms, I had built for IDPs in Haj Yousif 1991, with funds from Greman Red Cross

School in Haj Yousif, I had built by funds from Save the Childern

A Clinic in Haj Yousif by funds from Save the Childern

Slums..

Un-Habitat define housing in Sudan as 90-100% as Slums..!!

Pls, do not jump to conclusions, you need to understand the term first..!
 
Slums in the traditional sense are housing areas that were once respectable – even desirable – but which deteriorated after the original dwellers moved on to new and better parts of the city. The condition of the old homes declined as they were progressively subdivided and rented out to lower income people. Today, slum...s have come to include the vast informal settlements that are quickly becoming the most visible manifestation of urban poverty in developing world cities. Such settlements are known by many different names and are characterized by a variety of tenure arrangements. In all cases, however, the buildings found there vary from the simplest shack to permanent and sometimes surprisingly well-maintained structures, but what most slums share in common is a lack of clean water, electricity, sanitation and other basic services.
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slum

Justice of the Slums..

Judy Wanjiku, 26, lost a tooth during an attempted rape in Nairobi's Mathare slum as she walked to a toilet near her home one evening. "It was around 8pm and I needed to use to the toilet. As I walked towards one, I saw a group of men, one of whom I recognized so I knew they would not do anything to me," Wanjiku said. "I called out the name of the man I knew and was surprised when he was the one who held me while the others tried to undress me. They beat me up because I was screaming and one of them knocked out my tooth. My screaming saved me because people came to my rescue as one of the men was removing his trousers." Wanjiku's rescuers helped her to seek medical help.
"Days after I returned from hospital, the gang came after me, wanting to beat me up. I had to promise them that I would not report them or say anything because I reckoned that even if I reported to the police, the police would not be there to protect me all the time," Wanjiku told IRIN on 7 July.
Ordeals such as Wanjiku's, faced daily by many women in informal settlements, are the focus of an Amnesty International report, Insecurity and Indignity: Women's Experiences in the Slums of Nairobi...

More: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=89774