Post on 13-Jul-2020
AFFORDABLE, HEALTHY AND ECOLOGICAL HOUSING – ALBANIA
1st
Working Group Meeting, 11‐12 April, Geneva
Doris AndoniMaster of Science in urban Housing Management
Director of Housing Policy DepartmentThe Albanian Ministry of public Works, Transport and
Telecommunication
Main tools employed to promote access to AHEH
• Affordable housing– Legislative tools:
• The law no. 9232 of 13.05.2004 “On social programs for
housing the urban inhabitants”, as amended, addresses
the housing need of different income and social groups
through three main programs:– Social/public housing; – Low cost housing;– Land development for housing programs;
• Affordable housing– Financial tools:
• Sources of financing:– State budget;– Local funds;– Mortgages from private banks;– Loans from international financial institutions;– Other
legal
sources, donations, charities, etc..• Financial instruments:
– Mortgage interest rate subsidy;– Housing allowance for social/public housing;– Private rental subsidy (housing bonus);– Subsidy for the provision of social/public housing
Main tools employed to promote access to AHEH
• Healthy and Ecological Housing:– No specific legislation to define “healthy”
and
“ecological housing”;
– there are specific legislation/subordinated legal acts, that establish standards for:
• planning, architecture, construction, thermo, hydro
and acoustic‐isolation of dwellings, lighting,
requirements for energy efficiency, for disabled
persons;
– No specific financing tools
Main tools employed to promote access to AHEH
Major gaps in ensuring access to:
• Affordable housing:– The implementation of affordable housing
programs is very week and limited, because of:• Institutional weakness:
– housing is decentralized and local governments have poor
knowledge and/or interest in the housing policy sphere;
– most of LG, still view housing as a responsibility of CG;
• Financing is limited, because of:– lack of local policies, strategies and projects; and– Low priority at central and local level
Major gaps in ensuring access to (cont.):
• Healthy housing:– Informal developments:
have provided houses
without infrastructure and
in many cases, in areas
with high risk of flooding
or erosion, not because of
lack of legislation or
financing, but week
institutions
to control the
development and low
respect to the laws
1994
2007
Major gaps in ensuring access to:
• Healthy housing:– Old houses are
unhealthy because of
lack of maintenance,
which is related with
legislation, institutions
and household finance
Major gaps in ensuring access to (cont.):
• Healthy housing:– New houses are unhealthy,
because of:• poor and old /regulations /
standards;
• week control from local
structures (institutional
weakness);
• developer’s process of
selling the dwellings “in
drawings”
and not as a
readymade product, which
can be grouped as legislative
and institutional problem
Major gaps in ensuring access to:
• Ecological housing:– There is very limited
knowledge, information
and awareness;
– The only legislation that
touches upon this issue is
that of energy efficiency;
– Even this legislation and its
subordinated act (detailed
regulations) are not
implemented (institutional
weakness);
– Higher costs may impact
the implementation of the
standards
A POSSIBLE FRAMEWORK CONVENTION:
• Could help the country to address gaps in the areas of affordable, healthy and ecological
housing by:– getting the agreement of the government and
possibly ratification by the Parliament to sign the convention;
– Leading the country to the formulation of a comprehensive legislation and strategy towards
Affordable, Healthy and Ecological Housing
FACTORS THAT MAY HINDER THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON AHEH
• Low priority that housing has at national level;• Not ratification of the article 31 of the European
Social Charter (revised), dealing with the right to housing;
• Increased costs of construction (for healthy and ecological standards) and therefore decrease the
affordability;• Increased administrative costs for dealing with all
the topics;• Increased costs for addressing housing needs
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