These involve the government and local people working together to improve life in the settlement.
The government supplies building materials and local people use them to build their own homes.
This helps to provide better housing and the money saved on labour can be used to provide basic services like electricity and sewers.
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Site and Service Schemes
People pay a small amount of rent for a site, and they can borrow money to buy building materials to build or improve a house on their plot.
The rent money is then used to providebasic services for the area.
An example is the Dandora Scheme in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Local Authority Schemes
These are funded by the local goverment and are about improving the temporary accommodation built by residents.
For example, the City of Rio (Brazil) spend $120 million on the Favela-Bairro Project, which aimed to improve life for the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro's favelas.
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