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How to provide homes for all

What are the consequences of housing shortage in cities?

Low level of health

Lack access to safe drinking water may cause people to use water from polluted rivers and contaminated wells.

LAck of basic services makes people more vulnerable to diseases.

Environmental polution

Land polution

Water polution

Caused by inadequated provision of basic services

slums and squatter settlements

People living in slums and squatter settlements suffer negative consequences due to their poor living environments.

Homelessness

Homeless people suffer from poor health due to the exposure of cold and rain, hunger and lack of sleep.

Lack of shelter to carry out basic activities such as bathing, etc.

Why do housign shortage occur?

Limited land supply

Amount of flat land is limited

Competing land use

Land dedicated for one use will not be available for another.

Residential commercial industrial recreational

Migration

Rural-urban migration refers to the movement of peoplefrom rural areas into cities to live and work

movement of people from one area to another to take up residence for at least a year.

Rapid population growth

Urbanisation: The increased in the proportion of the world's population living in cities.

Lead to an increased demand for housing,which can in turn lead to housing shortage

What is housing shortage?

Insufficient basic services

The people lack:

Electricity clean water proper sanitation waste disposal power lines water pipes toilets and waste managements facilities

lack of shelter

They are not protected against natural elements

Houses built in a dense and disorderly manner are difficult to evacuated during emergency.

houses often built on unsuitable sites such as low-lying areas or steep slopes that are prone to floods and landslides.

Slums and squatter settlements

urban areas which are heavily populated, and the residents have poor quality housing and poor access to basic services.

Often neglected and do not recieved adequate provision of basic services

residents often face threats of eviction.

May have developed without permission.