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    Law and urban housing: a study of state intervention in urban housing in Tanzania
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 1988) Fimbo, Gamaliel Mgongo
    This study defines and explains forms of state intervention through the instrumentality of legislation in the state’s endeavour to solve the urban housing problem. The underlying theme of the study as a whole is the relation between law, state and society. The study seeks to demonstrate that both law and state, in the final analysis, serve the interests of the ruling class. State action is examined in the context of three major housing tenure forms, that is, public housing, owner-occupation and private rental sector. The thesis argues that the present organisation of the urban housing sector in Tanzania does not lead to the production or provision of adequate number of housing units in absolute terms and it does not, in particular, eradicate the housing problem of workers and low income persons. Further, it argues that Tanzania’s emphasis on owner-occupation is retrogressive in so far as housing provision is less related to need and more to the ability to pay. The thesis adopts a historical socio-economic approach in the presentation of materials. Thus while the subject matter with which it deals is essentially the contemporary situation, it sets this within an historical account of Tanzania Laws and housing system. Chapter I is on the research problem and framework of analysis. Chapter 2 discusses urban land tenure, thus providing the framework within which housing units are produced and exchange. Public housing and owner-occupation are discussed in chapters 3 and 4 respectively. Chapter 5 discusses sale and purchase of dwelling units. Private rental sector is the subject of chapter 6 and chapter 7 deals with residential security in the private rental sector. The last chapter, that is, chapter 8 contains a housing strategy for the future.