A
Research
report
submitted
to
the
Faculty
of
Engineering
and
the
Built
Environment,
University
of
the
Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg
in
partial
fulfillment
of
the
requirements
of
the
degree
of
Masters
of
Built
Environment
in
Housing.
Johannesburg,
April
2018Resettlement
has
been
a
common
worldwide
practice
in
development
projects
criticised
for
promoting
difficult
living
conditions,
raising
‘new
poverty’
(Cernea,
2003),
causing
involuntary
segregation
and
contributing
to
the
exclusion
of
the
right
to
the
city
(Jorge,
2016
and
Melo,
2015).
The
last
five
years,
during
the
implementation
of
urban
infrastructure
projects
in
Maputo,
more
than
5500
individuals
were
relocated
(Jorge,
2016
and
PROMAPUTO,
2017.)
Such
urban
investments
benefit
mostly
an
upper
middle
class
and
impair
the
lower
social
classes,
drawing
them
to
areas
far
from
the
urban
centre
(Jenkins,
2001
and
Jorge,
2016).
Maputo
also
faces
the
constraint
of
lack
of
vacant
land
for
housing
within
its
administrative
boundaries
(PROMAPUTO,
2017).
In
this
context,
it
is
urgent
to
introduce
a
new
resettlement
approach,
which
may
promote
better
outcomes,
help
to
reorganise
the
territory
in
integrated
and
sustainable
ways,
and
allow
a
greater
right
to
the
city
to
all
its
citizens.
Three
key
concepts
that
are
analysed
in
the
context
of
Maputo
are
involuntary
resettlement,
social
housing,
and
the
right
to
the
city,
including
land
management.
The
report
is
guided
by
the
main
question:
Could
multi-‐storey
social
housing
construction
in
situ,
offer
an
alternative
to
involuntary
resettlement
operations
in
Maputo?
Applied
research,
based
on
qualitative
methods
for
data
collection
(interviews
and
a
focus
group),
is
used
to
analyse
three
case
studies
of
resettlement
undertaken
within
the
ProMaputo
programme.
This
research
report
aims,
firstly,
to
contribute
to
promoting
other
forms
of
resettlement
procedures
in
Maputo
as
well
as
the
development
of
a
policy
that
gives
people
a
choice,
and
distinguishes
different
approaches
to
resettlement.
It
also
aims
to
raise
awareness
among
stakeholders
about
the
need
to
develop
multi-‐storey
social
housing
near
the
city
centre
as
an
alternative
to
relocation
elsewhere
and
to
identify
the
characteristics
of
such
houses,
which
can
promote
the
right
to
the
city
as
well
as
the
implementation
of
the
national
housing
policy.
The
report
intends
to
find
that
depending
on
the
characteristics
of
in
situ
multi-‐storey
social
housing,
it
can
be
an
effective
solution
for
accomplishing
these
aims,
and
that
the
affected
population
can
be
equal
beneficiaries
in
urban
interventions.MT 201
