Sustainability of the Urban Housing Projects in the Yemeni Cities (An Evaluating Study – Taiz City)

Abstract

Yemeni government and some international organizations exerted some efforts as a contribution to solve the problem of housing which considered a key problem facing Yemeni cities including Taiz city. Some housing projects had been executed to provide appropriate housing for some categories, including project for people affected by floods disasters (marginalized people), housing project for low income people, housing project for cleaning laborers which all distributed in various locations of the city. Notwithstanding the efforts exerted to provide housing project in Taiz, however, there are many problems in various aspects either architectural or environmental or economic or social such as weakness of uniformity in the architectural appearance, lack of diversity of housing, difficulty of access to services, shortage of green spaces and other issues that concern sustainability. Thus, this study aims to focus on the issue of sustainability in housing projects as they represent a wide access with multiple dimensions to design and evaluate urban housing, through study and analyze concepts of sustainably and its relation with housing projects, modern planning directions, evaluation tools and extracting indicators by which we can evaluate sustainability and scale the extent of achievement in the projects of housing in Taiz city and to conclude recommendations that may assist to address failure aspects in housing projects in the future in order to contribute to raising the durability of such projects and provide adequate housing and decent life for population of Taiz and other similar cities.

Keywords: Sustainably, Sustainability evaluation, Housing projects, Taiz.