Housing Conditions of Government Employees in Ethiopia: The Case of Robe Town, Bale Zone, Oromia Regional State

Abstract

For the first time in human history, more than half of the world's population is living in towns and cities. Inevitably, this rapid pace of urbanization constrained the speed to respond to the ever increasing demand of adequate and standard housing units in urban centers of Ethiopia including Robe town. Thus, this study aimed to assesses the housing conditions of government employees in Robe town. To this end, a systematic random sampling technique was employed to select 354 sample respondents from each government institutions in the town to participate in the survey questionnaire. Findings of the study indicated that, the overwhelming majority of government employees in the town are residing in a substandard housing unit rented from private house lords. These rent occupied government employees were challenged by continuously increasing rent cost and tenure insecurity. Therefore, facilitating housing access to government employee necessitate for feasible strategy by the national and local government.