Contribution of Migrants from Agriculture Based Areas to Rental Housing Production in Dar es Salaam

Abstract

Agriculture and rural-urban migration are interrelated phenomena that have an imprtant discourse in the urban developmetn of Tanzania.  When the two combined, they influence in Dar es Salaam the production of low-income rental housing undertakenby in-migrants with thier origin of agriculture predominately areas. The existence of housing in urban economy is associated with varioius dynamics which are essential to the process of urbanisation of the city.  The article discusses such dynamics andis didided into three sections.  It starts by dealing withthe theoretical considerations of rental housing asan impotant aspect of urban development influenced by agriculture and rural-urban migration, in section one.  Section two focuses on teh empircal analysis of the production process of the housing undertaken by the in-migrants in Dar es Salaam, and the functioning of housing empirically in urban development of  Dar es Salaam is dealt wth in section three.