This document provides an overview of housing shortages and slums. It begins with key thinking questions about housing shortages and then outlines the lesson objectives to define housing shortage and describe its nature. Housing shortage is defined as insufficient housing to accommodate a population, resulting in homelessness and slums. Slums lack safe shelter and basic services like electricity, water, and sanitation. People living in slums face higher disease rates, lower life expectancy, and health issues. The document includes pictures and videos of slums and has students discuss problems faced by slum residents and how their lives differ.

1. Chong Boon Secondary
School
Secondary 2 Geography
Unit 3: Housing
You must complete the pre-reading from Pg 64 to 68 before
this lesson.

2. 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? COPY

3. Lesson 1 Objectives
• What is housing shortage?
• Can you describe the nature of
housing shortage?
COPY

4. 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.
COPY

5. 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.
COPY

6. Watch this video
(from 3min40sec onwards)

7. 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.
COPY

8. Effect of insufficient basic services
• Rampant spread of diseases
• High overall death rate
• Lower life expectancy
• Malnutrition and other health
related issues.
COPY

9. Take a look at this slum area
Kibera Slum in Kenya
Click on
picture to
launch
video

10. Have you watched the video?
• Watch the video “the slum – episode one –
deliverance”.
Click picture
to view a
slum in
Singapore

11. 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!

12. 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?
COPY
10 minutes!

13. 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.