Challenges for urban housing development for improving livelihoods and well-being of population of low-income group in Tanzania: the case of Dar es Salaam City

Juma Kiduanga, University of Dar es Salaam

Housing in a society when is properly developed it becomes an effective instrument for population’s livelihoods and well-being enhancement. Reaching such progress has been however a great challenge to the population of low-income category in Dar es Salaam city. The following issues are investigated in the paper: First, the potential housing has in enhancing the livelihoods and well-being of the people at theory level and drawing empirical evidence of such phenomena from cities whose governments have made substantive efforts towards developing the sector. Second, the livelihoods and well-being contributed by the constructed housing to large part of population in Dar es Salaam city of Tanzania through the existing plans and policies. The third issue looked at the challenges for housing development and how to reduce them for its adequacy to improve the livelihoods and well-being of large proportion of city’s population.