Unavailability of building materials

The scarcity of building materials affects development plans in other sectors, including agriculture, health and education. It impedes self-help construction efforts, especially in slums and squatter settlements. This forces the urban poor to use inappropriate building materials such as cardboard or mud to improve or build their housing.

In many countries there is a scarcity of local produced building materials, such as aggregates, bricks, tiles, limestone, cement etc.

1. Shortage of equipment and materials needed to act against problems
2. Restricted delivery of essential services to rural communities

1. Scarce fencing material
2. Shortage of building stone

1. Uninsulated buildings
2. Unenvisioned construction methods
3. Unavailability of appropriate building
4. Prohibitive construction costs
5. Low-quality construction work
6. Housing shortage

1. Wood, shaped or simply worked, shortage
2. Instability of mining and quarrying industry

1. Unavailability of construction equipment
2. Unavailability of building sites

1. Developing construction materials industry

1. Unavailability