The operation of the urban land market has been identified as a significant obstacle preventingrnthe urban poor from accessing affordable land. Even successful market developments could notrndistribute land to the poor and intervention in the land market is, therefore, required to promoternmore equitable land di stribution. Goverr1l11ents design land policies to indicate how land and thernresources available from land is di stributed to their population. The study on urban land policyrnand access to land for low income people in Nifas Si lk Lafto Sub-city Administration wasrndesigned identify the land lease policy problems and indicate way forward to enable the poor tornaccess land along with the fierce completion for land. The current land lease regulation of AddisrnAbaba has mainly focused on land delivery system of auction while the 48 .5% population thatrncan be categorized under the low income population could not participate in the competition forrnland, due to low economic capacity. The study depicted that given the existing low economicrnstandard of the target popul ation, there is a need to introduce protection mechanisms to creaternconducive conditions in access to land for the poor. This necessitates a wide regional dialogue onrnthe cu rrent land lease policy to improve land delivery systems without significantly affecting thernland policy at national level. The survey made at Dertu area indicated that about 50.9% of therninformal settlers purchased land in black market. Unless alternative land delivery modalities arernr introduced, the poor never stops purchasing land in black market as shelter is a basic necessity.rnThe ci ty government has to work on reshaping this market and bring it to light in such a way thatrnincome is accrued through channeling it in to formal land lease system.rnSince there is discrepancies between the need of the population and the land del ivery modalities,rncomprehensive discussio ns and policy dialogues of the public is recommended to provide land atrnseparate area free of competition for the poor at the bench mark price set by the CityrnAdmini stration Land Lease Board . Increasing land supply to stabil ize land market, which isrnsati sfying only 10.2% of the demand, was ind icated as a so lution to improve the land accessrnproblem of the population. Minimizing the eviction of the poor and adapting plans to local needsrnand capacity were taken as an alternative. Introducing pro-poor land management system andrnprotection mechanisms to the level conducive to the poor without significantly affecting thernpolicy at national level is recommended as a solution to improve land access problems currentlyrnprevailing in the city.