Housing Rights in Urban Transformation Projetcs

Gecekondu settlements and housing policies have always been controversial issues in urbanisation history of Turkey. The housing policies and the approaches to gecekondu settlements have changed in distinct periods depending on sociospatial and economic circumstances. The small scale house builders played a crucial role in housing sector for regenerating the gecekondu settlements, until Housing Development Administration took the lead in large scale urban transformation projetcs in the begining of 2000s. In this book, housing rights in urban transformation projects are discussed accordingly different actors of housing sector in early 2000s.