High cost of housing

The proportion of income which a family can pay for shelter varies according to the country and the times. The disparity between what the lower income groups can pay and the rent required to acquire a building and amortize its cost, has generally widened with the years because of technological lag, rising costs of materials, labour shortages and building laws which impose more costly standards. When wages have risen, so have shelter costs, and the gap has continued unbridged. Subsidized public housing projects intended for the poor are often out of their reach and captured by middle- or high-income households.

1. Unethical practices of landlords
2. Prohibitive cost of living
3. Prohibitive cost of goods and services
4. Excessive costs
5. Consumer vulnerability

1. Reduced stock of low-income housing
2. Prohibitive cost of home maintenance
3. Demoralizing constraints on housing rehabilitation

1. Repossession of property
2. Increase in abandoned buildings
3. Inadequate housing
4. Illegal occupation of unoccupied property
5. Homelessness
6. Discrimination in housing
7. Abandoned private homes

1. Underpayment for work
2. Uncontrolled household rent increases
3. Short-term profit maximization
4. Scarcity of residential land
5. Prohibitive cost of land
6. Foreign takeover of cities
7. Capitalism

1. Scattered housing locations
2. Prohibitive cost of necessities in rural communities
3. Over-spacing of suburban housing
4. Construction of inappropriate tourist resort complexes

1. Reducing house values
2. Reducing disparity between income and cost of housing
3. Reducing cost of housing
4. Providing adequate housing
5. Limiting low-cost housing
6. Inflating house values
7. Improving access to shelter for poor
8. Developing housing policy

1. Costliness
2. Lowness
3. Limitedness
4. Poverty
5. Inflation
6. Disparity
7. Prohibition