Building the Just City in Tanzania: Essays on Urban Housing (i) Inadequate due dili­gence in the recruitment process resulting from the swiftness required to get the PSTL started and (ii) Voracity of the firms in pursuit of profit maximization and (iii) Lack of fee charge guidelines at the be­ginning of the PSTL. 3.4 Public land access and management While private access to land for hous­ing is vital for the welfare of the so­ciety, the availability of public land is equally crucial to complement hous­ing areas. Local governments require land for recreation and social housing provision. In contrast with central gov­ernment establishments and public corporations, local authorities in Dar es Salaam do not have as much land as would have motivated them to de­velop housing. This is not surprising since during the early years of inde­pendence in Tanzania, the set up was highly centralized. As a result, central government bodies had been granted large land parcels for employer housing estate and other needs(Materu 1994). Some of the lands owned by public bodies in the cities and towns have stayed undeveloped for a long time, some have been abandoned and are subject of squatting. Examples in Dar es Salaam include vast lands owned by the defunct Tanganyika Packers at Mlongazila, Ubungo Municipality, and at Kawe, in Kinondoni Municipality. Some of the Tanganyika Packers land has been repossessed by the gov­ernment, such as the present site for Mlongazila Referral Hospital and the 711 NHC Satellite City Project in Kawe. The lack of local government lands is a challenge to their role of providing a green city, parks for recreation, and emergency evacuation site for safety during flooding or fire incidences. Gen­erally, communal space in urban areas is disregarded. Land banking which is an important tool used in ensuring there is land for large investment in the coun­try has not been used for urban area. 4. Persistent Issues in Access to Land and Housing The above analysis shows that, al­though the land laws in Tanzania broadly address social justice for all groups, implementation strategies have advanced unworkable solutions that in turn exacerbated unequal ac­cess to land. Key messages from the analysis are that inattention to land speculation and low capacity to im­plement policies has constrained pub­lic policy on land access for housing. 36