Bangladesh’s Housing laws and regulations

 The government of Bangladesh has implemented various rules and regulations to govern the
housing sector in the Country. The following are some of Bangladesh's main housing laws and
regulations:

 Building Codes: The BNBC establishes guidelines for

building materials, structural design, and safety features
such as fire protection and earthquake resilience.
 Land Use Regulations: Zoning laws, for example, govern
how land is utilized for residential, commercial, or
industrial uses.
 Environmental Regulations: Environmental rules include
water and air pollution regulations, solid waste
management policies, and environmental impact
assessments for new developments.
 Tenancy Laws: Tenancy laws allay concerns such as rent
control, evictions, and repair duties.
 Registration of Deeds: This method is meant to render
property transactions open and legally valid.

Registration of Deeds
Bangladesh’s housing situations

 In Bangladesh, housing conditions vary greatly across the country. Despite recent progress, many
people stay without access to safe, cheap, and adequate housing. Following are some key aspects
of Bangladesh's housing situation:

 Overcrowding: Bangladesh is one of the world's most densely

populated countries, with many people living in overcrowded
conditions. This might result in health issues and societal
difficulties.
 Poor Quality Housing: Many Bangladeshi homes are of poor
quality, with poor ventilation, lighting, and sanitation. This can
cause health issues and make it difficult to live peacefully. Poor Quality Housing
 Informal Settlements: In Bangladesh, a large part of the
population lives in urban slums, These villages lack basic
services like water, sanitation, and power, and they are
frequently affected by flood or other calamities.
 Homelessness: Homelessness is a major issue in Bangladesh,
particularly in urban areas. Many people are homeless or live in
crowded shelters, which can result in illness and social
inequality. Informal Settlements
 Housing Affordability: In Bangladesh, housing affordability is
a major issue, especially to low-income families. Many
individuals are unable to own or rent good housing, resulting in
overcrowding and poor living conditions.
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 Five dimension of Global housing policy:

 Integrated housing Frame work:

 Embedding housing into urban plans.
 Both citywide and national sectorial investments strategies
 To improve livability and accessibility within urban areas.
 Inclusive Housing:
 Participatory Process.
 Fair housing Policies.
Inclusive Housing
 Address housing for special needs groups.
 Affordable housing:
 Improve affordability of home ownership.
 Subsidy policies to enable low-income households to rent
or own adequate housing.
 Revenue and capital generating policies.
 Mechanisms that limit property speculation.
 Adequate Housing:
 Participatory process.
 Fair Housing Policies.
Adequate Housing Informal settlement
 Ensure Habitability.
 Access to basic services.
 Informal settlement upgrading:
 Support of neighborhood upgrading programs.
 Protection of incremental housing.
National Housing Policy

 Objective :

 Make accessible to all sort of society.

 Make suitably located land at affordable price.
 Develop effective strategies for reducing the need to seek shelter formation or slums,
unauthorized constructions, encroachments and shanty dwelling units.
 Rehabilitee disaster as well as fire affected households.
 Promote use of locally developed materials and construction techniques and increase
production of forest based building materials such as timber bamboo or grass.
 Develop a property tax base to promote housing
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 Proposed Strategy (in context of Bangladesh)

• Housing will be given due to priority in the national development plans.
• The role of the government in housing will be to supply serviced land at reasonable price and to
help create and promote housing financing institution.
• Efforts will be made to increase affordability of the disadvantaged and the low income groups
through providing credit for income generation.
• Improvement and rehabilitation of the existing housing stoke will be given priority by the
government alongside new housing.
• Encroachment on public land and unauthorized constructions will be discouraged.
• Facilitate incremental house building and ensure wider application of resources.
• Conservation of the natural environment and preservation of cultural heritage in new housing
projects.
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 Housing Policy: Essential Elements

1. LAND
2. INFRASTRUCTURES
3. BUILDING MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY
4. FINANCE
5. LEGAL AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
LAND
 LAND
• Increase the supply of serviced land for housing for various income groups
• Access of the poorer sections and vulnerable groups to affordable serviced
land with secure land tenure .
• Encourage the involvement of the private sector in land development,
infrastructure development and construction.
• Special provisions for the handicapped, the destitute and the very poor
• Initiate area development schemes to maximize the availability of housing
per unit of land
• Formation of Urban Land Bank and Rural Land Bank
• Khas lands for the landless and agriculture only
Restriction for housing, industries etc in khas land.
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 INFRASTRUCTURE
• Balanced pattern Of urbanization through a policy Of
decentralization Of investments and incentives
• Stop unregulated conversion of agricultural and forest
land for the purpose of housing
• Integrated and planned development of the region and
to reduce migration to the larger cities
• Improve mobility of people through public transport
and traffic network
• Infrastructure construction which are cost effective.
incrementally upgradable, and environmentally
appropriate
• Recognize peoples initiative in the design and Cost Effective
involvement in the community
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 Building Materials and Technology

The Government is conscious of the problems caused by the dwindling supply of traditional building materials and their
increasing cost.
• Provide assured access of rural households to traditional materials considering environmental preservation
as well as forest conservation
• Stimulate the increased production and availability of conventional low cost technologies and materials in the national
standards (cement, steel and bricks and traditional materials like)
• Promotion of small scales industries as a industrial policy
• Promote low cost environmentally-sound technology
• Use of indigenous resources, including mud, wherever appropriate
• Development, manufacture and use of materials based on industrial and agricultural wastes
• Incorporate the low cost technologies and materials

Indigenous resources
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 Finance for housing

• National Home Lending program accessible to the poorer segments of the
households through low income housing fund
• Disburse loans to the individuals, cooperatives, community associations,
legally roistered companies, private
housing finance system as a whole self-financing
Promotion of reliable housing finance companies
Bangladesh bank and Private housing banks

 Legal & Regulatory Framework

The measures for removing the legal constraints
• Provision of Land Reforms Act to ensure proper rehabilitation
• Though governments is only a facilitator, it will act only in the emergency
situation for poor and landless people
• Revision of land use plans, planning and building regulation and
infrastructure
• Suitable laws to restrict scattered spreading of homesteads in rural areas
and to conserve agricultural land
• Removal of constraints to the flow of finance
• Modify development control rules and norms to facilitate the housing
activity of different income groups, specially the
poor, and to reduce the cost of housing.
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 Government roles & support

• The Government will devise and implement strategies which will
enable the various agencies
• Act as facilitator housing
• Its role as a provider will be limited to the poorest and vulnerable
sections
• Control speculation and profiteering through appropriate tax and fiscal
measures
• Encourage NGOs and the voluntary and community based agencies
• Promote decentralized execution with active participation of
beneficiaries
• Reorient the Government housing agencies to act more as promoters
• Make building materials available at a reasonable cost through
necessary changes in fiscal and policies
• Suitable locations/core areas of the urban centers at a market price
• Take steps to integrate housing activity, income generation and Preservation of buildings
employment.
• Give priority to the preservation of buildings and monuments,
structures of architectural value, and the preservation of special natural
features
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 Who works on housing policy

 BANGLADESH HOUSING POLICY AUTHORITY CITY LEVEL AUTHORITY
 HBRI
 PWD
 NHA
 HBFC
 HBRI
 DOA
 ARCHITECTS
 ENGINEERS
 MINISTRY OF WORKS
 MINISTRY OF LAND
 MINISTRY OF FINANCE
 NATIONAL ECONOMICAL COUNCIL (NEC)