Social capital of condominium neighborhood dwellers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

New low cost condominium neighborhoods have flourished in Addis Ababa and other major cities of Ethiopia in the last decade as a strategy to address severe housing shortage. Because these neighborhoods are very densely populated, high story, and gated, compared to typical neighborhoods in Ethiopia, there is a perception that everyone living in these condominium neighborhoods is deprived of neighborhood social capital. However, theoretical and empirical evidence elsewhere shows that there is variation among demographic and socioeconomic groups of residents’ interims of their level neighborhood social capital. To test if this indeed true in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, we compared the social capital of different socio-demographic and socioeconomic groups. We found that among the seven variables considered (gender, marital status and having children, level of education and level of income. tenure status and length of stay in the neighborhood) only three (only having children, tenure status and length of stay) were found to be significantly correlated each with one dimension of neighborhood social capital.