Housing adequacy in Yemen: an investigation into physical quality

Abstract

Evaluating housing projects is an essential task to determine the effectiveness of these projects and to provide a useful feedback to the projects’ initiators ‐ be it the public or the private sector. The evaluation could be on a number of different bases. Reports the results of research work aiming to compare the quality and effectiveness of three housing projects initiated by the Yemeni government in the capital ‐ Sana’a. The basis chosen for evaluating the public low‐income housing schemes is the housing quality measurement technique. This technique is used for measuring quality under widely different housing standards. It is a way of assessing the environmental quality and hence evaluating the success or failure of a particular housing project. Satisfaction of residents has also been evaluated and reported in an earlier paper (Al‐Abed and Mustapha, 1996).

Citation

Djebarni, R. and Al‐Abed, A. (1998), "Housing adequacy in Yemen: an investigation into physical quality", Property Management, Vol. 16 No. 1, pp. 16-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/02637479810202900