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a)
Avoid mushrooming of slums.
Create decent accommodation for lower and medium income households.
b)
Insensitive housing policy.
Declining incomes
c) Instead of building the nation, residents are normally pre-occupied with survival.
d) Invades personal space
- Reduces creativity
- Makes life just mere survival
e) can they?
f) If it costs not more than thirty percent of the monthly household income for rent utilities.
g)
Promote-demote
Asset- liability
h)
– offer a solution to the social-economic development of lower and middle income households.
-Provide a stepping stone for young families, a stable place to get back to after a hard day building the nation.
i)
I) mushrooming- growing/coming up at a high rate
II) Lip-service- what is said is not done practically
III) Wallow- Swim in
IV) Consolidated pay- combined salary
V) Indispensable- Something that one cannot do without/unavoidable
marto answered the question on September 11, 2019 at 07:48
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