Chong Boon Secondary School

Secondary 2 Geography

Unit 3: Housing

You must complete the pre-reading from Pg 64 to 68 before this lesson.

Key thinking questions

• How to provide homes for all?• What is housing shortage?• Which cities in the world experience housing

shortage?• Why does housing shortage occur?• What are the consequences of housing shortage

in cities?• What are some strategies used to manage

housing shortage? • How do we build inclusive homes?

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Lesson 1 Objectives

• What is housing shortage?

• Can you describe the nature of housing shortage?

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What is housing shortage?

• Insufficient housing is available to accommodate the population in that area.

• Results in large scale homelessness.

• Presence of slums and squatter settlements.

– Temporary, unauthorised housing built by settlers as shelters.

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Lack of safe shelter

• Shelter protect against the weather elements

– Strong winds, cold temperatures

• Slum houses are badly built.

• Materials used are cheap and poor.

• High tendency to collapse due to natural disasters

• High tendency to be destroyed in accidents.

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Watch this video (from 3min40sec onwards)

Insufficient basic services

• Lack access to basic services

– Electricity

– Clean water

– Proper sanitation

– Waste disposal

• Lack of infrastructure

– Water pipes, waste management facilities, power lines.

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Effect of insufficient basic services

• Rampant spread of diseases

• High overall death rate

• Lower life expectancy

• Malnutrition and other health related issues.

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Take a look at this slum areaKibera Slum in Kenya

Click on picture to

launch video

Have you watched the video?

• Watch the video “the slum – episode one –deliverance”.

Click picture to view a slum in

Singapore

Time to buzz

• Talk to your partner.

• Name 3 problems that people living in a slum have.

• Identify one way in which your life is better than people living in slums.

5 minutes!

Turn to Pg 68

• Figure 3.8 shows a sketch of a slum

Answer the following questions. Discuss with your partner.

(a) Describe the slum as shown in the sketch.

(b) How do you feel living environment compared to your neighbourhood?

(c) If you could provide one amenity for the slum, what would you provide? Why?

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10 minutes!

Exercise Time

• On your own, complete the exercise and submit.

• You have 10 minutes.

• Use what you learnt today and the information you shared with your friends earlier.