Issues and instruments of an urban policy, progressive housing as an alternative to the precarious housing of Sidi-Harb of Annaba (Northeast Algeria)
Sidi-Harb is a shantytown located in the west of Annaba city. In 1994, in accordance with inclusion dynamics, Sidi-Harb benefited from the Resorption of Precarious Habitat program (RPH), a project of 500 progressive housing units intended to improve the quality of life of the residents by giving them access to affordable housing, as well as to a viable living environment. Funded by the World Bank, the RPH program introduced innovations through the adoption of various techniques of intervention: rehousing, prevention, reorganization through the rehabilitation of infrastructures in under-equipped neighbourhoods and regularization of the land situation. Consequently, the objective of this article is to decipher the means of interventions on the site to verify if this program satisfies the criteria of urban integration by echoing the expectations of the population involved or if it is simply an operation of regularization out of sync with the socio-urban reality.