Housing Environment

Discussion
The discussion centers around
• Housing for the poor, Slums and squatters, informal sector housing,,
Ethnic and Class groupings & segregation in housing, Access to
infrastructure, services and facilities in housing areas – public health
issues – Housing Environment and General Welfare – Residential
satisfaction & factors contributing to residential satisfaction
There are different definitions of poverty
• There’s no international consensus on measuring poverty. Generally,
absolute poverty thresholds are determined by measuring survival
needs like food and shelter for different-sized households
People living in poor circumstances are not necessarily who (or
where) you think.
• A family can fall into poverty for many reasons — medical
emergencies, crop failures, sudden unemployment.
Affordable housing can be hard to find.
• In many regions of the world, the number of low-income households
far exceeds the affordable housing units available
A full-time job (or two) might not be enough for a family to afford a
decent place to live.
• Having a house (or apartment) doesn’t mean you aren’t living in
poor circumstances, a greater % of all households — are paying more
than 30% of their incomes on housing, forcing them to maintain a
nearly impossible balance by making hard decisions about food,
transportation and health.
• Insecure tenure, or the threat of eviction, is reality for many living
across the globe, depriving people of even the most basic physical,
economic and psychological security of adequate shelter. More than
20% of the world’s population struggles, on a daily basis, to stay in
houses or on land where they live, and more than 70% of the world’s
population does not have legal documentation of their property rights