sustainable housing (chapter 8)

Question 1

what are the different types of housing

Answer 1

village → town → city → metropolis

Question 2

what are the types of housing

Answer 2

1. formal
2. informal

Question 3

what are the characteristics of formal housing

Answer 3

• built by government/private developers
• legal rights to occupy land
• access to basic services
• high quality building materials
• found on desirable land

Question 4

what are the characteristics of informal housing

Answer 4

• self-built squatter settlements
• no legal rights to occupy the land
• lack of access to basic services
• poor quality building materials
• found in areas of locally unwanted land-use

Question 5

why is there informal housing in cities

Answer 5

• Rapid population growth in cities,
• Many of the new migrants may not be able to afford to live in formal housing.

Question 6

explain land use planning

Answer 6

• planning authorities use zoning (planning control tool) → ensure the built enviornment is well developed
• this is done to shape the layout of cities to enable various types of developments

Question 7

what are the factors affecting the location of housing

Answer 7

1. land use planning
2. developers
3. land prices
4. housing financial support

Question 8

what are the different types of developers

Answer 8

1. private
2. public

Question 9

what are private developers

Answer 9

• individuals/comapnies that develop a property for profit
• tend to pick sites that are more commercially viable

Question 10

what are public developers

Answer 10

• government
• tend to consider the peoples needs more than profit

Question 11

explain land prices

Answer 11

• land prices ↑, house prices ↑
• → people cannot afford
• thus, it is important that governments regulate land prices
• if land prices too ↑, informal housing ↑ to accomodate the rural-urban migrants or local-urban poor

Question 12

explain housing financial support

Answer 12

• developers can ↓ cost of building houses → encourage developers to build more houses, preventing house shortage
• enable developers to sell houses at an afforable rate
• without it, formal housing may not be affordable to most
• means, places without financial support schemes will have ↑ informal housing because affordability of formal housing ↓