Titling and Beyond : Evidence from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Land titling has been a policy priority for developing country cities for decades. In Sub-Saharan Africa and across the world, tenure formalization has been promoted as a tool to improve the quality and value of urban housing. The track record of t...

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Main Authors:	Panman, Alexandra, Lozano Gracia, Nancy
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	LAND TITLING LAND TENURE TENURE FORMALIZATION PROPERTY RIGHTS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/493721615577813005/Titling-and-Beyond-Evidence-from-Dar-es-Salaam-Tanzania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35288

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spelling	okr-10986-352882022-09-20T00:10:09Z Titling and Beyond : Evidence from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Panman, Alexandra Lozano Gracia, Nancy LAND TITLING LAND TENURE TENURE FORMALIZATION PROPERTY RIGHTS Land titling has been a policy priority for developing country cities for decades. In Sub-Saharan Africa and across the world, tenure formalization has been promoted as a tool to improve the quality and value of urban housing. The track record of these projects, however, has generally been disappointing. Why is this? This paper argues that project design has paid too little attention to contextual features of land markets in estimating the benefits of formalization to individual households. The paper draws on evidence from a case study city — Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — to show that in cities where broader property rights institutions are incomplete and informal sources of tenure security are strong, formal property rights may not be valued by households. This raises questions about the households’ willingness to pay for regularization and suggests that complementary strategies to build trust in government and consolidate public benefits of titling will be needed to ensure that projects have a beneficial impact. 2021-03-18T14:21:26Z 2021-03-18T14:21:26Z 2021-03 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/493721615577813005/Titling-and-Beyond-Evidence-from-Dar-es-Salaam-Tanzania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35288 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9580 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE) Tanzania
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description	Land titling has been a policy priority for developing country cities for decades. In Sub-Saharan Africa and across the world, tenure formalization has been promoted as a tool to improve the quality and value of urban housing. The track record of these projects, however, has generally been disappointing. Why is this? This paper argues that project design has paid too little attention to contextual features of land markets in estimating the benefits of formalization to individual households. The paper draws on evidence from a case study city — Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — to show that in cities where broader property rights institutions are incomplete and informal sources of tenure security are strong, formal property rights may not be valued by households. This raises questions about the households’ willingness to pay for regularization and suggests that complementary strategies to build trust in government and consolidate public benefits of titling will be needed to ensure that projects have a beneficial impact.
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author	Panman, Alexandra Lozano Gracia, Nancy
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title	Titling and Beyond : Evidence from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
title_short	Titling and Beyond : Evidence from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
title_full	Titling and Beyond : Evidence from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
title_fullStr	Titling and Beyond : Evidence from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
title_full_unstemmed	Titling and Beyond : Evidence from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
title_sort	titling and beyond : evidence from dar es salaam, tanzania
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2021
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/493721615577813005/Titling-and-Beyond-Evidence-from-Dar-es-Salaam-Tanzania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35288
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Titling and Beyond : Evidence from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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