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AFFORDABLE, HEALTHY AND ECOLOGICAL HOUSING – ALBANIA 1 st Working Group Meeting, 1112 April, Geneva Doris Andoni Master of Science in urban Housing Management Director of Housing Policy Department The Albanian Ministry of public Works, Transport and Telecommunication

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Page 1: AFFORDABLE, HEALTHY AND ECOLOGICAL HOUSING · Affordable housing – Legislative tools: • The law no. 9232 of 13.05.2004 “On social programs for housing the urban inhabitants”,

AFFORDABLE, HEALTHY AND  ECOLOGICAL HOUSING – ALBANIA

1st

Working Group Meeting, 11‐12 April, Geneva

Doris AndoniMaster of Science in urban Housing Management

Director of Housing Policy DepartmentThe Albanian Ministry of public Works, Transport and 

Telecommunication

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Main tools employed to promote  access to AHEH

• Affordable housing– Legislative tools: 

• The law no. 9232 of 13.05.2004 “On social programs for 

housing the urban inhabitants”, as amended, addresses 

the housing need of different income and social groups 

through three main programs:– Social/public housing; – Low cost housing;– Land development for housing programs;

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• Affordable housing– Financial tools:

• Sources of financing:– State budget;– Local funds;– Mortgages from  private banks;– Loans from international financial institutions;– Other

legal

sources, donations, charities, etc..• Financial instruments:

– Mortgage interest rate subsidy;– Housing allowance for social/public housing;– Private rental subsidy (housing bonus);– Subsidy for the provision of social/public housing

Main tools employed to promote  access to AHEH

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• Healthy and Ecological Housing:– No specific legislation to define “healthy”

and 

“ecological housing”;

– there are specific legislation/subordinated legal  acts, that establish standards for:

• planning, architecture, construction, thermo, hydro 

and acoustic‐isolation of dwellings, lighting, 

requirements for energy efficiency, for disabled 

persons;

– No specific financing tools 

Main tools employed to promote  access to AHEH

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Major gaps in ensuring access to:

• Affordable housing:– The implementation of affordable housing 

programs is very week and limited, because of:• Institutional weakness:

– housing is decentralized and local governments have poor 

knowledge and/or interest in the housing policy sphere;

– most of LG, still view housing as a responsibility of CG; 

• Financing is limited, because of:– lack of local policies, strategies and projects; and– Low priority at central and local level

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Major gaps in ensuring access to  (cont.):

• Healthy housing:– Informal developments:

have provided houses 

without infrastructure and 

in many cases, in areas 

with high risk of flooding 

or erosion, not because of 

lack of legislation or 

financing, but week 

institutions

to control the 

development and low 

respect to the laws

1994

2007

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Major gaps in ensuring access to:

• Healthy housing:– Old houses are 

unhealthy because of 

lack of maintenance, 

which is related with 

legislation, institutions 

and household finance

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Major gaps in ensuring access to  (cont.):

• Healthy housing:– New houses are unhealthy, 

because of:• poor and old /regulations / 

standards; 

• week control from local 

structures (institutional 

weakness);

• developer’s process of 

selling the dwellings “in 

drawings”

and not as a 

readymade product, which 

can be grouped as legislative 

and institutional problem

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Major gaps in ensuring access to:

• Ecological housing:– There is very limited 

knowledge, information 

and awareness;

– The only legislation that 

touches upon this issue is 

that of energy efficiency;

– Even this legislation and its 

subordinated act (detailed 

regulations) are not 

implemented (institutional 

weakness);

– Higher costs may impact 

the implementation of the 

standards

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A POSSIBLE FRAMEWORK CONVENTION:

• Could help the country to address gaps in the  areas of affordable, healthy and ecological 

housing by:– getting the agreement of the government and 

possibly ratification by the Parliament to sign the  convention;

– Leading the country to the formulation of a  comprehensive legislation and strategy towards 

Affordable, Healthy and Ecological Housing

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FACTORS THAT MAY HINDER THE IMPLEMENTATION  OF A FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON AHEH

• Low priority that housing has at national level;• Not ratification of the article 31 of the European 

Social Charter (revised), dealing with the right to  housing;

• Increased costs of construction (for healthy and  ecological standards) and therefore decrease the 

affordability;• Increased administrative costs for dealing with all 

the topics;• Increased costs for addressing housing needs

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Ngrohje/Ftohje

me gaz

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energji

elektrike

Ngrohje/Ftohjee pjesshme

450 kwh

225 kwh

4335 lek/muaj

1732 lek/muaj

3660 lek/muaj

1848 lek/muaj

2985 lek/muaj

1886 lek/muaj

400 kwh

240 kwh

350 kwh

245 kwh

2600 lek/muaj

31200 lek/vit

1900 lek/muaj

22800 lek/vit

1100 lek/muaj

13200 lek/vit

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