Sustainability of Low-Income Housing Approaches in Bangladesh

A rising standard of living and political ideologies grew awareness of human needs and social values (UKGP 1998). The UNCHS (1996) made a “global call to action” for adequate shelter and sustainable human settlements for all, pinning the onus on the authorities. Reaffirming the principles for governance and progress worldwide, a commitment by nations to a global partnership to reduce poverty (UN, 2000) has more failures than successes (Holden et al., 2008).

The developing world’s urban population, going to be doubled by 2030, will include huge growth in the number of slums housing a sixth of humanity (UNCHS 2003). There will be about 2 billion slum dwellers then (UNCHS 2007) through “urbanization of poverty and social inequality” (Whelan, 2004). The MDG urged to improve the lives of only 100 million of them by 2020 (UN 2000), which the global community was failing.

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