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in Papua New Guinea. Firstly the rental housing market in Papua New Guinea was, and still is, heavily subsidised by the government and associated with paying rates, taxes and other regular repair and maintenance costs. Secondly most Papua New
Guineans held strong ties with their rural areas and many
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In 2011 another study on housing was conducted drawing on the 1973 - 1974 urban household survey which revealed that less than 40% of the urban households had built and owned the houses they lived in. Five years after the establishment of the
National Housing Corporation (NHC), another urban
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Public housing in Papua New Guinea is not only unavailable, but also unattainable for a large proportion (60.0%) of the urban population. It is evident that even the 1981 housing policy that encouraged national home-ownership schemes has not significantly increased home-ownership.
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areas. People live on government land and many of them work as wage earners. Examples of their occupations include a provincial officer, an employee of a private company, and a teacher. In addition, some of them are farmers in the
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West Taraka is situated in the north-western part of the city, and
Boundary Road is situated in the mid-western part of the city. Both have grown rapidly in the 1970's and 1980's by people coming mainly from the Highlands
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living along the banks of the Bumbu River. Many houses were damaged or completely destroyed and hundreds of people at the Five Mile settlement along the
Highland highway were also affected by mud-slides.
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people were unprepared to sever these ties for several reasons, for instance, fear of being accused by wantoks (relatives and friends) of running away from rural obligations.
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Another study by the Bank of Papua New Guinea examined the demand for urban housing finance which found that two factors discouraged individual investment in urban
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household survey revealed that only 10% of all houses in Lae were either rented or leased directly and the corresponding figure for Port
Moresby was 23%
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212:University of Technology
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101:6.65556°S 146.98639°E
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222:History of Tent City
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573:Lae Botanic Gardens
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561:Landmarks
525:Geography
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466:Chinatown
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160:Time zone
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