Home-based Enterprises Approach for Post Disaster Housing: Learnt from Post Disaster Redevelopment Programme in Developing Countries

AbstractAccording to Lizzaralde et al (2010), in rebuilding a post-disaster housing has similarity with an informal upgrading settlement approach in developing countries. In gaining a successful informal upgrading settlement programme, one of the criteria is a recognition of the variety of functions and uses and the mixture of residence and income-generating activities. On the same notion, by using a set of qualitative data, particularly interview from both local people and government, as well as observation, it was found that rebuild house which accommodate economic activities in a house including land surround the house, through keeping or even making a new economic activities space at house is a worth approach in post-disaster housing