Housing policies to increase resilience to disaster and climate related events in Colombia
Carlos Ariel Cortes Mateus, Luis Miguel Triveno Chan Jan
The loss of human life and the high economic damages and losses generated by natural disasters, force governments to think of integral strategies that increase the resilience of the housing stock through the retrofitting of existing housing, the promotion of voluntary resettlement for households living in areas where risk cannot be mitigated, and the creation of incentives for the planned expansion of the supply of new formal housing in well located and safe areas. Colombia has actively engaged in the implementation of programs to increase the resilience of homes and neighborhoods through the use of instruments of territorial planning, disaster risk management, regularization, slum upgrading, structural housing retrofitting, resettlement of homes and the construction of new housing. This paper shows Colombia’s use of all these tools and presents lessons learned that could be applied in other developing countries.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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