Housing and Space Management

Housing And Space Management 3(2+1)

Lesson 30: Housing Situation And Problems

Important parameters for examining housing shortage

In urban area:

• Increase in population
• Immigration from agricultural areas towards the cities
• Establishment of industrial units in city areas
• Shortage of building materials
• High price of land in city centers
• Difficulties concerned with issue of planning permits in new established cities
• Old nature of the existing housing in such cities
• The slum dwellers constitute 30 % of population in major metropolitan centres.

In rural area:

• Constraints in availability of modern construction materials
• Few skilled labor
• Non availability of developed land.
• Imbalance in housing
• Financial constraints