Poor Housing Dilemma in Third World Countries

Third-world countries face numerous challenges in their endeavor for development and in the process of increasing the standards of living and dignity of human beings. Those challenges range from quality of education, health, unemployment, and social inequalities to precarious housing. One of the most common problems in those countries is housing, as Gilbert (2000:145) puts it, “Millions of urban families in the so-called Third World live in homes that lack adequate sanitation and security, have an irregular electricity supply and are built-in flimsy materials”, and millions of others live in overcrowded conditions. Although the big cities are where this problem is easily seen, remote rural communities face the same problem, thus, governments of those countries are constantly facing demands to provide better and proper housing.