From housing without rights to right to housing
By Mansi Kumarasiri and Vijay Nagaraj, for the Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA)
Sri Lanka’s urban social housing policy has a rich history but at present it is riddled with problems. The most serious of these is manifest in the post-war Urban Development Authority’s (UDA) program of social housing for low-income communities in Colombo.
Their right to housing was seemingly traded for other rights—participation, consultation, compensa