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CHAPTER ONE 3 1. INTRODUCTION 3 1.1. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 3 1.2. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 4 1.3. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 5
1.3.1 GENERAL OBJECTIVES 5
1.3.2. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES 5 1.4. SCOPE OF THE STUDY 6 1.5. METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY 6
1.5.1. DATA SOURCE 6
1.5.2. METHOD OF ANALYSIS 7 1.6. LIMITATION OF THE STUDY 7
CHAPTER TWO 8 2. REVIEW OF LITRATURE 8 2.1.MATERIALS MANAGEMENT 8 2.2. OBJECTIVES OF MATERIALS MANAGEMENT 9 2.3. PRICE DETERMINATION 10 2.4. INFLATION 13 2.5. HOUSING THE POOR 13 2.6. Integrated Housing development program 17 2.7. Hawassa city housing development project office 19 2.8. Different type of houses and price of transferring 20
CHAPTER THREE 21 3. DATA PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION 21 3.1. Beneficiary (dwellers) characteristics (sample population) 21
3.2.1. TYPE OF HOUSES ASSIGNED FOR BENEFICIARY IN THE SAMPLE…. 25
3.2.2. DWELLERS WILLINGNESS TO BUY HOUSES 26
3.2.3. PRICE OF HOUSES AND THE FACTORS THAT AFFECTS THE PRICE OF HOUSES ………………………………………………………………………………...26
3.2.4.CONSTRUCTION MATERRIALS AND THE MARKET PRIC………………..27
3.2.5.GENERAL OPINION OF DWELLERS 28
3.2.6. PRICE OF CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS AND BENEFICIARY OPINION.29
CHAPTER FOUR 33 4. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 33
4.1. CONCLUSION 33
4.2 RECOMMENDATION --------------------------------------------------------------------- 34
Bibliography………………………………………………………………. 36
Appendix I …………………………………………………………… 37
Appendix II ………………………………………………………… 38

CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Ethiopian urban centers face a number of socio-economic problems. Unemployment, poverty, weak economic base, growing housing problem and slum dwelling with a weak