Dwelling units in public low cost housing - an analysis of type-plans

Abstract

"The shortfall of up to 75000 urban dwellings a year has been met by individual families themselves, who has squatted on public and private land and built whatever poor form of shelter was within their means (...) where even this was not possible, they have doubled up or trippled up with other families. (...) a partia: survey in 1962 showed that in Nairobi some 100,000 persons were living in only 28,387 rooms, and two households out of every three had an occupancy rate of four or more persons per room. Overcrowding is now even more severe (...)"