Categories: All - housing - migration - health - services

by BENJAMIN JAMES LIM JIN CHENG N/A 9 years ago

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Housing shortages are a pressing issue in many urban areas, impacting both the quality of life for residents and the overall functionality of cities. The lack of basic services such as electricity, clean water, and proper sanitation exacerbates these issues, leading to environments where health risks are heightened due to poor living conditions.

Sec 2 geography chapter 3 mindmap

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.