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Slums - Areas Characterized by Substandard Housing Conditions Within A City

Slums are areas characterized by substandard housing conditions within a city due to overcrowding, poor design and lack of ventilation, light, and sanitary facilities. This is detrimental to safety, health, and morals. Slums form for reasons such as decentralization, economic conditions, lack of education, improper land use, industrialization, lack of zoning laws, migration, limited local authority powers, and lack of repairs and maintenance. Characteristics of slums include poor appearance, fire hazards, poor health and sanitation, low income, poor morals, overcrowding, isolated populations, and undesirable ways of life. Slums have negative effects such as lack of amenities, poor health, blighted surrounding localities

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Slums - Areas Characterized by Substandard Housing Conditions Within A City

Slums are areas characterized by substandard housing conditions within a city due to overcrowding, poor design and lack of ventilation, light, and sanitary facilities. This is detrimental to safety, health, and morals. Slums form for reasons such as decentralization, economic conditions, lack of education, improper land use, industrialization, lack of zoning laws, migration, limited local authority powers, and lack of repairs and maintenance. Characteristics of slums include poor appearance, fire hazards, poor health and sanitation, low income, poor morals, overcrowding, isolated populations, and undesirable ways of life. Slums have negative effects such as lack of amenities, poor health, blighted surrounding localities

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SLUMS

Substandard housing represents an area Slums - Areas characterized by substandard housing conditions within a city
REASONS

overcrowding, faulty arrangement of design, lack of ventilation, Lack of light or sanitary facilities a combination
Detrimental to

safety health Morals Poverty stricken Lack of open spaces Unhealthy residential structures Various slum clearance programmes central and state governmnets
CAUSES OF SLUMP

1)decentralisation 2) economic conditions 3) education 4) improper use of land 5) industrialisation 6) lack of zoning 7) migrants 8) powes of local authority 9) repairs and maintenance 1) Decentralisation When decentralisation occur rich & middle class move out poor people left unattended crowded central portion 2)ECONOMIC CONDITION Unemployment Growth of population Universal character proverty Cant afford rent 3)EDUCATION Inhabitants lacking education Easily dragged into social evils Do not consider improvement of living conditions 4)IMPROPER USE OF LAND

Land fit for residences Used instead for industries Slums formed due to lack to area

5)IND

Evil result of industrialisation labourer houses not planned Houses near factories Motive - rent

6)LACK Town not divided into zones Development at random Slums created 7)MI

People migrating from other towns Occupy, illegally , vacant & empty places Squatter- person occupying land w/o title Colony of squatter slum

8)POWER Local authority doesnt posses adequate power No control on development of town 9) Cheap houses Rent motive alone Not maintained properly Favour formation of slums

CHARACTERISTICS OF SLUMS Appearance Fire hazards Health & sanitation Income criteria Morals Overcrowding Population Social isolation Way of life EFFECTS OF SLUMS

Absence of amenities Health Surrounding locality Undesirable spots Working conditions

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