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Informal housing
What problems are linked with this type of housing?
Premature death from unsafe sites
Communicable diseases are spread easily in the packed housing.
Unsecure as to land ownership
Congestion
High crime
Lack of access to education and healthcare
What is like like for people who live in the slums?
There is a low quality of life, this is due to a lack of basic facilities such as water, food and electricity.
They are socio-economically and politically deprived and are a poor section of urban society.
Lack of clean facilities leads to communicable diseases spreading through the slums.
People live in fear of dying early due to flooding, being run over by a train, houses collapsing, etc... depending on where there housing is located.
People get stuck in traffic continually because informal housing is very congestesed.
What is the housing like?
Limited or no access to basic services: water, toilets, electricity, transportation.
The housing is unsafe and/or unhealthy and usually overcrowded with people.
Usually made out of waste materials such as corrugated iron, cardboard, tin and plastic.
Where is it usually located?
They are on the periphery of urban areas.
Usually located on land that is not suitable to be developed on.
What are the issues with where it is usually located?
Issues with unsuitable land:
Floodplains - prone to flooding, the inhabitants could get wet and suffer from damp and mould in the houses.
Steep slopes - the houses could fall down. It is not stable for houses to be built on steep slopes.
Beside railways - dangerous location for young children, air pollution - leads to bad health conditions.
Informal housing on the edge of urban areas lowers the standard of the urban areas, it makes the cities look rubbish.