Answer:
Demand for cheap housing leads to
1. Poorly built houses, overcrowding, inadequate supply of electricity
2. Inadequate sanitary and rest room facilities, lack of waste management
3. Environmental degradation, disease manifestation, inadequate medical facilities, high mortality rates
Increase in cost of land leads to
1. Formation of rich exclusive areas and poor exclusive areas
2. Creation of an unequal society
3. Reduced empathy and therefore reduced development of the society
Explanation:
Increased urbanization increases the concentration of people in the urban areas leading to a situation of overcrowded slums that are made up of informal settlements such that there is a deterioration of the environment where people leave whereby it becomes more increasingly impossible to evade poverty
Rapid and unplanned urbanization gives rise to increased inequalities within the such that the poor in the urban slums have to provide for themselves through mainly unorthodox means because of their disproportionate low resources compared to the elites that largely exist within urban society setting.
