What are the alternatives to total displacement of people in urban renewal that will achieve best results?

Question

When carrying out urban renewal activities, most of the people displaced from their homes are the poor masses because they dwell in slums & sprawling settlement that require renewal activities.

The displacement heightens their sufferings and yet one of the essence of such planning activities is to provide a conducive healthy environment for people that will support the standard of living they can afford.

General practice has been to demolish areas considered as slums and rebuild or create resettlemet schemes for displaced persons and so on. And these methods involve hudge government spendings which the government of today, i'm speaking for most developing countries of the third world, cannot afford.

So my question is: What other alternatives can be applied when carryig out such planning activities that will minimise the sufferings of those affected because it almost seems like there is a conflict between what is expected as urban planners and the interest of those affected

Answer 1

Provide employment opportunities in the rural areas so that the unemployed in the urban jungle will be relocated thereat together with the commensurate low cost housing to be deducted on installment from their salaries.