Affordable Housing for All Redefining the roles of public and private sector

The process for the Territorial Agenda on Legalization, Urbanization and Integration of informal settlements in Albania seems stopped at the first. Even if it is proceeding, legalization, it has not a clear vision or priority. For many times this synoptic approach of decision making has left space to critiques under political and corruptive practices and influence. The real territorial priority context has been centralized to higher administrative levels, leading to no political, economic and cognitive resources to the local authorities. At this consideration the questions that rises are; • Is it possible to estimate the missing part from the public investments? • Is this territorial agenda, legalization/urbanization/integration, economically sustainable for the city? For future studies it remains crucial and an urban challenge to determine the integration indicators on each specific context - since Albania has joined the UN Habitat III agenda (see chapter on integration of informal areas). The aim of this research is to give a clear methodology of the policy on legalization, urbanization and integration of informal areas in order to measure, monitor, and invest on determined conditions. The process of planning and investing based on whole area (urbanization) instead on single lots has not taken root on the public and private culture yet but a system to capture the territorial importance remains fundamental for the city public administration and the private market. The importance of this research, starting from the ‘informal areas’, can be a changing drive also for urban areas inside the city and under urban regeneration process