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    INFORMAL SETTLEMENT REGULATION AND ITS HUMAN RIGHTS IMPLICATION IN ETHIOPIA: THE CASE OF DAYE TOWN, SIDAMA REGION
    (Hawassa University, 2024-03) MELESE FUNTE KIMO
    An Informal Settlement become sensitive issues today, Informal land deals are targeted for housing purposes. People settled informally mainly because, of imbalanced life situations mainly with the income of individuals and due to lack of getting the formal way of a residential house. These factors force people into the informality process most of the time as people who participated in an interview said. The study also addressed the challenges that can be overcome to lessen their negative effects by considering the practical situation on the part of both informal settlers and key informants. Problems connected with residential houses in the town force people into the informal way of land acquisition system and informal housing process. Controlling the expansion of informal settlements can be made effective through an available housing provision, avoiding restrictions on land transfer, and through strong land administration capacity. Homelessness is a serious human rights violation and can be the result of a lack of affordable housing, often on account of gentrification and speculation or other market forces coupled with racial or ethnic discrimination. To conduct this research the researcher employeda qualitative research approach of legal frameworks and policy of Informal Settlement Regulation and its Human Rights Implication in Ethiopia. In this regard, the study employed primary data that includes official and mandatory legal frame works of Ethiopia and policy with international law analysis, interviews, and secondary data that the researcher employed from various secondary sources which include soft laws, principles, articles, and recommendations. The finding of the study indicated that legal gaps that exist in land laws and policy problems affect human rights. Accordingly, the study recommends that amendments in land laws and policy reform should be made. As far as people with low levels of income and urban poor are concerned, the government must provide possible ways to provide legal ways to get living houses in the city.