The Habitat International Coalition – Housing and Land Rights Network (HIC-HLRN) has developed a tool that establishes a methodology for financial appraisal of material and non-material costs and losses resulting from an eviction. The function of such a tool is the calculation of losses already incurred, but it can be used also for conducting a baseline survey to help in the registration of assets.
An interesting element of this methodology is the recognized existence of material assets that go beyond the value of the structure, as it also includes the value of land, agricultural production, value of livestock and natural resources, rent, mortgage, and taxes already paid, value of the commercial site, as well as cost of the resettlement process and transport. The tool also takes into account the non-material assets, such as health, psychological trauma, loss of education and social ties and community disintegration.
Currently, this tool is being developed further to be used to conduct eviction impact assessments, as discussed above. The eviction impact assessment could be used both to suspend a project as well as to claim just compensation in post-eviction scenarios.
To know more, click here or write to: info@hic-sarp.org
Photo: Anderson Barbosa
Leave a Reply