Adopting Organized Self-Help Housing Approach in

“If dwellers participate in the design, construction and management of their housing, the process and environment thus created, stimulate individual and social well-being. If not, the project may become a barrier to personal fulfilment and a burden to the economy”. John Turner Self-help housing approach has long been applied by societies in general. At a time when professional services (such as that of architects and engineers) were not available, communities built houses and buildings based on customs, beliefs and traditional systems of building. This manual highlights organized self-help housing where a “facilitating organization both assists the household that have chosen self-help housing and that bears a responsibility to authorities and financial agencies. ” (Rodriguez, Astrand