ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates how pursuing spatial justice, in the same framework of responsible land management, advances security of tenure for the poor and vulnerable informal urban dwellers. This is ascertained from the current urban (re)development processes in Kigali city, using indicators measuring spatial justice and land tenure security. Data sources include focus group discussions and interviews with the resettled people and stakeholders in Kigali city development, field observations, and reviews of Kigali city development schemes. Patterns of four forms of spatial justice consisting of procedural, recognitional, redistributive, and intra-and inter-generation justice are identified in the rules in use, their implementation processes, and their outcomes. They are embedded in the resettlement of these categories of urban dwellers in serviced sites, from which emerges the de facto and perceived tenure security, previously subverted by the passage of new master plan of Kigali city. However, their resettlement sites are distant from the urbanized area and employment opportunities. To curb this problem, further resettlement sites should be close to the urbanized area. This would also decrease fear among the resettled people of exclusion from the core urban area.
