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Cities

Volume 2, Issue 2, May 1985, Pages 149-164
Cities

Housing and development in Freetown, Sierra Leone

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Abstract

This article surveys housing problems in Freetown and argues that the perpetuation of housing problems in Freetown and the failure to implement housing policies cannot be attributed merely to bureaucratic inadequacies and resource limitations. They can only be fully understood by reference to the way the main agents of housing provision, the private market and the state, operate in the specific social and economic conditions of underdeveloped capitalism.

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