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Abstract
In this article, we investigate self-help strategies that have been implemented in Liberia, a small West African country. Liberia, like other African countries, encountered problems in implementing self-help strategies such as sites and services projects and community-upgrading activities. High-ranking leaders were reluctant to support government officials seeking to gain acceptance for the sites and services concept. Housing providers also faced land acquisition problems in that they could not obtain large tracts of vacant land near employment locations for new shelter projects. Yet, when management, maintenance, and cost-recovery problems emerged in the midst of community-upgrading activities, government officials with limited financial resources found appropriate solutions to overcome them.