The rapid urbanization and the high rate of population growth and influx into urban areas, results to overutilization of the available limited natural resources. Rural-urban migration is a major cause of population growth in urban areas. The urban populations in the developing world grew at a 3.35 percent rate annually between 1975 and 2007, the development rate of the rustic populace stayed steady at around one percent. As a consequence of this trend, in 2007 the world’s the world’s urban populace surpassed the rustic populace (United Nations, 2008). A big section of the urban population in Kenya today are jobless or earn much less than they can spend, causing a rise in poverty levels. Some of these people end up in makeshift settlements in public or private undeveloped urban land. In context to physical planning, space [land resource] can be referred to as the major over utilized resource in most urban areas. The urban population thus tends to encroach into the surrounding land use zones [urban sprawl] or squeeze into the available limited urban space. The result to the latter is formation of slums. Community facilities, (like health and education facilities) and utilities (such as water, energy, transportation, or telecommunications) are also over utilized in the case of slum areas. This paper seeks to expound on over exploitation of infrastructure in slums and some workable recommendations to help improve the livability and sustainability of the slums. Infrastructure provision and improvement will help create opportunities and highlights on the potentials of the area of study to achieve sustainable development. For instance, improvement of accessibility, water, waste management and electricity can generally improve the livelihoods of slum residents as well as economic growth and environmental conservation.