Land policy options for urban Tanzania

This paper discusses land problems in urban Tanzania which have manifested themselves in recent years as: shortage of planned plots; slow development of planned allocated land; rundown or complete lack of infrastructure in planned neighbourhoods; inequitability, partiality and institutional mêlée in land administration; torpid bureaucracy in all levels of land development processes; the proliferation of unplanned areas; and the commoditization of land. Policy options are outlined as simplification and decentralization of land administration, effective cost/value recovery with cross-subsidies where necessary, public participation, and recognition of, and working with, the informal land delivery systems.