34th Year — No. 41
Addis Ababa, 26th July, 1975
Proclamation No. 47 of 1975
CONTENTS
Government Ownership of Urban Lands and Extra Houses Proclamation
PROCLAMATION No. 47 OF 1975
A PROCLAMATION TO PROVIDE FOR GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF URBAN LANDS AND
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WHEREAS, the standard of living, rights, honour and sta tus of workers and toiling masses working in factories, in dustries and other fields of activity are determined by the extent to which the urban areas in which they live afford opportunities of work and shelter ;
WHEREAS, extensive areas of urban land and numerous
aristocrats, high Government officials and capitalists, who, by
cial shortages in the supply of urban land, thereby inflating its value and obstructing the improvement of urban areas and of the quality of life of urban dwellers in their effort to perpetuate the system of exploitation ;
WHEREAS, the concentration of urban houses- suitable both for dwelling and business purposes in the hands of a few them to place themselves above the law and to evade their duty to pay taxes for a long time ;
WHEREAS, the urban - dwelling workers and other toiling
furtherance of the comfort and luxury of the ruling class, can regain their rights as Ethiopians, that is, their economic, political and social rights which should have been made equally availa ble to them by their country but which were denied them for a
center in which they live are open to them on the basis of equa lity ;