62 As of now, Burundi has already embarked on the process to acquire two main regulatory and technical tools for the rational and sustainable management of its lands. These are: - The National Land Policy Letter - The Review of the Land Code of certain technical land management tools - The Investment Code However other important tools for sustained land management are still lacking, namely the territory’s provincial development plans for thirteen remaining Provinces, the Territorial Development Code and the Expropriation Code for public necessity. 24.2. Promotion of Urban Planning and Housing Promotion of Urban Planning As a result of the low production capacity level of plots in sufficient quantities and in prices which are at par with the incomes of the majority of the citizens, an anarchic and spontaneous land occupation has developed in the peri-urban zones. This situation involves costly restructuring operations and curbs the orderly extension of the urban suburbs. Moreover, despite the low urbanization level, estimated at 7%, there is still a strong imbalance between the Capital and the provincial urban centres, while the rural centres are not able to develop into genuine poles of development. The strategies adopted by the Government seek to: - Define and adopt a National Urban Planning and Housing Policy, - Update the Urbanization and Development MasterPlan (SDAU) and prepare local development plans (PLA) for the City of BUJUMBURA and the Towns of the interior, - Draft an Urbanization and Construction Code and guarantee the rational management of the urban spaces to improve a mastered checking of national spaces and of construction. During the year 2008, the Government pursued its programme of making land available for construction through the following activities: - Expropriation of sites: This relates to the costs of compensation incurred to facilitate the development of new sites and services (Kirama, Gasekebuye, Ruziba, Bwoga); - Development and preparation of the plots of land for construction: this programme involves the City of Bujumbura (Kinindo, Kinanira IV, SororezoII, Gasekebuye, West Kabondo and