Housing Challenges for Urban Poor: Kampungs in Jakarta, Indonesia

Journal Article

2020

Published in: Current Politics and Economics of South, Southeastern, and Central Asia

Alzamil, W. . 2020

The housing challenges of the urban poor come as an inevitable consequence of increasing demand for housing stock. More than a billion people live in slums that lack the lowest components of the urban environment (Mahabir, Crooks, Croitoru, & Agouris, 2016). In other words, almost a quarter of the world's population lives in slums or informal settlements (Friesen, Rausch, Pelz, & Fürnkranz, 2018). The housing crisis is accompanied by an imbalance in regional development policies, where urban development is concentrated in major cities at the expense of small and rural cities. 

*This is a reformatted version of a chapter previously published in: Jaworski, Jared A. Advances in Sociology Research, Volume 32. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2020.

• Publication Work Type: Original Paper
• Volume Number: 29
• Issue Number: 1
• Magazine \ Newspaper: Current Politics and Economics of South, Southeastern, and Central Asia