Ore Fika

Senior Specialist in Urban Land and Housing Development, IHS (Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies)

Ore Fika is a researcher and senior Urban Land and Housing Development specialist with an architecture and project management background. Her expertise is in the legal and economic aspects of the land. She focuses on land development strategies that enable the lower income to have equitable access to land and housing. Therefore, she lectures on Land Tenure Modalities, Land and Property Rights, Community Land Trust, Inclusionary Zoning, Expropriation and Compensation, Benefits Sharing, Land Grabbing, Spatial Segregation, Gentrification, Land Markets and Land Value Capture Instruments.

Her current research line is on Peri-urban Land grabbing in Sub-Saharan Africa. From 2012 to 2016, functioning as a thesis supervisor, she was part of the research group on Land Value Capture that produced over 60 master theses on Land Value Capture instruments. Since 2017, she has coordinated the Equitable Urban Land Governance research workshops in the Urban Management and Development Master programme. In 2007, she researched the growth and consolidation of slums on waterfronts, also known as “Landless Slums”.

Ore Fika currently teaches at the Urban Housing and Land Justice master track. From 2013 to 2016, she coordinated the one-year tailor-made Urban Management and Development- Sustainable Urbanism (UMDSU) program. She developed and coordinated ateliers on urban planning in Almere and Rotterdam and a slum upgrading workshop in Kibera, Nairobi