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Sustainable and Affordable Housing Policy for Afghan Refugees Returning to Afghanistan

The overall goal of this paper is to examine the suitability and potential of the policies addressing the sustainability and affordability of housing for returnees and to determine the impact of this policy on housing delivery for Afghan refugees. Housing is a central component of the settlement experience of refugees. A positive housing situation can facilitate many aspects of integration. Unaffordable, and unsafe housing, however, can cause disruptions in the entire settlement process. This paper aims to identify a suite of built forms for housing that is both affordable and environmentally sustainable for Afghan refugees. The result was the development of a framework that enables the assessment of the overall performance of various types of housing development in all zones of the country. There is very little evidence that the present approach of housing provision to the vagaries of market forces has provided affordable housing, especially for Afghan refugees. There is a need to incorporate social housing into the policy to assist people who cannot afford to have their own houses. SING is a basic need for every human being. Housing policy may be defined as government action to achieve housing goals. These goals can improve the quality of housing stock for the home or can deal with homelessness. The other definition of housing policy can be government intervention in the housing field. Housing as a determining factor in social cohesion is regarded as a condition for access to employment and realization of fundamental human and social rights. Cheap and sustainable housing is an important part of today’s life for returnees, but considering Afghanistan a country that does not have a national housing policy yet, is really annoying.

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