Empower the Urban Poor and the Immigrants to Improve their Housing Situations

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ID5817424
AuthorsMohammed Aliyu (The Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume8
Issue12
Pages1-7
Publication date2022-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2349-0381 • E-ISSN: 2349-0373
PublisherARC Publications (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.20431/2349-0381.0812001
OpenAlexW4313496880
LanguageEN
References cited8

Worldwide, "ethnic problems", "religion crisis", and "regional conflicts" are displacing a large number of refugees and immigrants which is always associated with poverty and also generating bad conditions of living in societies (Schmitz, et al. 2003).The urban poor and the immigrants with their children in-fact the entire families are facing difficulties due to some circumstances beyond their control.Their housing situations and well-beings are becoming worst and worst everyday due to lack of finance, high cultural influences or minimal social understanding of good housing effects.Helping to provide jobs, accommodations or educational programs and practices of survivals to the lowincome households or the urban poor and immigrants is always a worldwide challenge to most national governments, especially in countries where most citizens are adequately fed (Downs, 1969).However, even in other places with comparatively large public housing programs for the financially incapacitated citizens, still it is extremely hard to gain access to some sort of formal shelter for all (Bredenoord & Lindert, 2009).Therefore, to this end, limited number of professional institutions, Non-Governmental organizations tightly embraced the concept of empowerment or personal determination as guiding principles to assist the urban poor and the immigrants.Few among the organizations operate the "micro-to-macro" system of supports that is tailor-made to solve the many possible needs of the urban poor plus the immigrants, and their general well-being (David & Okamura, 2007).These principles or way of assistance are the required means for supports, but usually not enough for the change of housing situations for the urban poor, the refugees as well as the immigrants.Accordingly, Jackson & Esses (2000) says these approaches "could lead to an undermining of support specifically for those types of help that would be most empowering to Abstract: House is an indicator of man's standard of living in a society; it is a "process" and also a "product".It is always a process because it under goes through some creativity and stages, and it is a product because it passes through some processes that resulted to indicate the status of living.The urban poor and the immigrants' places are always noticed by the shanty and squalor settlement of towns and cities.Contemporary complicated situations facing the urban poor plus immigrants and their housing situation require a deep re-examination of how to improve their wellbeing and daily in-come so as to change the condition of their built environments in general.However, the urban poor and the immigrant are the people who are currently facing problems everywhere, in most of the settlements, which often needed a more and more holistic, exceptional and comprehensive treatments.Government such as social works, or even able individual community activists (voluntary) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) can help the urban poor and the immigrants significantly to improve their living conditions and their housing situations.This study aimed at discussing how to empower the urban poor and the immigrants so as to improve their living environment (housing).The question this study tends to provide answers are; who are the urban poor or the immigrants?What are the mediums of empowerment in which government, or individual community activist (voluntary) or Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) will follow?The discussion will further explore the various way of assisting urban poor and the immigrants.Personal opinion and observation with the related literature are the method of sourcing data in how to assist the urban poor and the immigrants to increase the value and condition of their housing situations, and also their life style in general

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