Making Unaffordable to Affordable: Looking into Affordable Housing Issues and Its Remedies

2019
Muhammad Ahsan

Affordable Housing is a critical issue in many developing countries that impacts their potential for sustainability and socio-economic development. Lack of affordable housing, slower growth of housing stock, and aging housing conflates numerous other problems in Pakistan, including overcrowding, poor indoor air quality, prevalence of preventable diseases, and development of slums and katchi abadies, etc. These challenges lessen living standards in many areas. Unaffordable housing forces low income families in urban areas to live in dilapidated areas. An increase in the construction of affordable housing is needed to mitigate housing affordability challenges in Pakistan. Setting aside land quotas for low-income families in housing development schemes is not sufficient because the households still lack the means to construct housing. This paper attempts to identify the causes of unaffordable housing and solutions for its provision

Keywords
Affordable Housing, Housing Stock & Backlog, Lahore, Urban Extent.
DOI
10.2478/aup-2019-0003

Ahsan, M. Making Unaffordable to Affordable: Looking into Affordable Housing Issues and Its Remedies. Architecture and Urban Planning / Arhitektūra un pilsētplānošana, 2019, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 22-29. ISSN 1691-4333. e-ISSN 2255-8764. Available from: doi:10.2478/aup-2019-0003

Publication language
English (en)