Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has criminalized the failure to slash bushes around homes and paint houses regularly. It also an offense to liter anywhere that is not designated as a liter place. Isaac Musumba, the Lands, Housing and Urban Development Minister, told reporters on Tuesday in …
Read More »Dealing with the slum question in Kampala
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Forty five-year-old Sarah Nsangi, is a resident of Katanga Kimwanyi zone in Wandegeya market in Kawempe division in Kampala metropolitan area. She has been part of tens of hundreds of residents of this area now counting over 30 years. Nsangi also runs a shop …
Read More »Poor enforcement of physical plans affecting land use
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Poor enforcement of physical development plans in Uganda has affected land use across the country. Sam Mukasa Kintu, a professional physical planner and founder Head of the Physical Planning Department at Kampala City Council now Directorate of Physical Planning of Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA says …
Read More »Multiple interests on land hindering development of slums- Musumba
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Multiple interests on land are hampering government’s plans of developing slums. The State Minister for Housing Isaac Musumba Baryomunsi told journalists Thursday at Uganda Media Center that in many slums especially in Kampala, the holder of the land title is different from the owner …
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