Urbanization Social Problem Analytic Framework

Everything comes with positive and negative repercussion. Urbanization too has its positive and negative social effects. This paper mainly aims at one of the major social problem associated with urbanization. One of the major problems associated with urbanization is the housing issues. Urban growth is very difficult to regulate because no country can progress economically without growth of urban centers. Urban poor have no choice rather than to have informal means of survival. This becomes the only way of survival for the poorest in the cities is to live in poor shelters, commonly referred to as slums, close to the city to accomplish their needs such as employment as well as accommodation. (Bunnarith, 2004). They fulfill this gap through substandard living whereby they live in squatters, slums, and other informal settlement.

The slum is one of the major negative consequences of housing issue. Floods in such areas come along with other negative effects such as destructions of property as well as transmission of waterborne diseases such bilharzia. Poor drainage in these areas also result in stagnant water which becomes breeding sites for disease transmitting organism such the mosquito and this may result in people getting infected with various diseases. The menaces of the housing problem in the urban centers need to be well understood and addressed with an immediate effect. Good housing is vital to financial as well as physical security, healthy communities' economic productivity and human well-being. Addressing this problem of adequate, affordable and secure housing within and around the urban is quite important in approach to enhance equity, economic productivity as well as environmental sustainability of the urban areas.

Thirdly and most important is to improve infrastructures such as roads, social networks and providing social amenities in the areas such as schools and hospitals. The other strategy to be put in place is by providing a police station near the area to cater for security. This type of approach towards the control of housing issues in the urban centers is referred to as upgrade in situ. This is whereby the informal settlement population is not relocated instead their living condition is upgraded in order to receive equal opportunities with other city dwellers. There are various factors that influence the problem of housing issues in the urban centers. A micro influential theory of housing issues in the urban Center is the "culture of poverty.

" The culture of poverty has led to increasing housing issues where the urban poor settlers never have a creative mind of how they can develop and upgrade their standards of living instead they have a mindset that they were born poor and they will die poor. The success of this approach lies in the hands of the government. The government should take a very big step in order to solve housing issue in the cities. The approach of upgrading the informal shelters which are the main source of the housing problem in the urban centers should be formally addressed by the government. (2011, August 09). Retrieved from http://www. citiesalliance. org/About-slum-upgrading Bunnarith, M. (2004, July). A new price regime. Econ. Polit. Weekly 48 (17), 45e54 Massey, D.