Shanty Towns: push and pull factors
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• Shanty Towns are a collection of overcrowded poor quality housing which develop on poor land. They have no services or amenities and are built of waste materials. They are on the edge of cities on marginal land, waste tips, cemetries or poor quality land unwanted by developers.

Push Factors: (From the countryside):

• Lack of food due to crop failure causes people to move away from the countryside.

• Extreme physical conditions in the countryside. eg drought and heat.
• Lack of services.
• Lack of employment and investment by the government.
• Labourers being forced off land.

Pull factors: (To the city):

• Prospect of employment official and informal.

• Possibility of having better housing, health services, education and water and electricity supply.
• Prospect of a reliable source of food.
• The government is willing to invest money to improve conditions in the city.

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