Housing and its spatial distribution. ( WA1, Chapter 8)

Question 1

What is housing?

Answer 1

Housing is the structure or building used to shelter people from the weather/elements.

Question 2

What are the two types of housing mentioned in the textbook?

Answer 2

Permanent and temporary.

Question 3

What are examples of temporary housing?

Answer 3

Igloos, relief shelters and nomadic tribes.

Question 4

What are some examples of permanent housing?

Answer 4

HDB, Landed housing

Question 5

What are examples of high-rise and high-density housing and what does it comprise of?

Answer 5

HDB, it comprises of apartments and shared facilities like playgrounds and exercise corners.

Question 6

What are examples of low-rise and low-density housing?

Answer 6

Detached houses, semi-detached houses, terraces and shophouses.

Question 7

What is a way to organise housing?

Answer 7

Using spatial distribution.

Question 8

What do you do when using spatial distribution in organising housing?

Answer 8

We consider how far a house is from the city centre.

Question 9

What is something else we can think of when categorising housing?

Answer 9

Housing density and the location relative to other activities

Question 10

Based on technology, what do you consider when organising housing?

Answer 10

The type of materials used.

Question 11

Based on social relations, what do you consider when organising housing?

Answer 11

Whether the housing is built for small families, extended families or even entire communities.

Question 12

Why do we need proper housing plans?

Answer 12

So that cities can develop sustainably.

Question 13

If the cities grow faster than the pace of housing development, what happens?

Answer 13

There will be a housing shortage.

Question 14

Who provides legal housing and what is is called?

Answer 14

It is provided for by government housing programmes or private developers. It is also called formal housing.

Question 15

Who “ provides “ illegal housing and what is it called?

Answer 15

It is usually built by individuals who are unable to get access to formal housing. It is also called informal housing.

Question 16

What quality materials do they use when building formal housing?

Answer 16

Good/ high-quality building materials.

Question 17

What can people living in formal housing expect?

Answer 17

The access to basic services.

Question 18

How many percent of Singaporeans live in HDB?

Answer 18

Over 80%.

Question 19

Who owns the land HDB is built on?

Answer 19

The government.

Question 20

What are some amenities that can be found near HDB flats?

Answer 20

Hawker centres, clinics and small supermarkets.

Question 21

What do land rights refer to?

Answer 21

Land rights refer to the ability of individuals to freely obtain, use and possess land at their discretion as long as their activities do not impose on other individuals’ land rights.

Question 22

What is formal housing with the legal right to occupy/own the land?

Answer 22

Housing is built by those with the legal right to occupy the land.

Question 23

What is considered access to basic services?

Answer 23

Easy access to water, electricity and provision of sanitation services.

Question 24

With the provision of basic services like easy access to water, what can it improve?

Answer 24

It will improve the quality of life.

Question 25

Why should we use high-quality building materials when building formal housing?

Answer 25

So that the building is able to withstand elements like heavy rain and strong winds, and basic threats like fires.

Question 26

When there is pressure and a demand for housing, what will happen to the price of housing?

Answer 26

The prices of housing will go up.

Question 27

Why do people want to move to cities?

Answer 27

As they want to improve their circumstances and build a better life.

Question 28

What do the people do when they want to move to cities but don't have the money formal housing?

Answer 28

They end up settling in informal housing in the cities or in the outskirts of the cities.

Question 29

What are the informal housing in the city or at the outskirts of the city called?

Answer 29

Squatters.

Question 30

What are the settlements called? ( when they cannot afford formal housing )

Answer 30

Squatter settlements/informal settlements.

Question 31

What issues does squatter settlements cause?

Answer 31

Social unrest and the degradation of the environmental quality.

Question 32

How are self-built squatter settlements built?

Answer 32

They are informal housing and usually are built by individuals in an unplanned fashion.

Question 33

What are self-built squatters at risk of?

Answer 33

They are at risk of collapsing, being flooded on rainy days or catching fire easily.

Question 34

Why is informal housing built?

Answer 34

Due to necessity.

Question 35

What are the PEOPLE living in informal housing or squatters at risk of?

Answer 35

Losing their homes.

Question 36

What do people living in informal housing lack?

Answer 36

Basic services like electricity, water and sanitation.

Question 37

How does lacking basic services affect them?

Answer 37

They illegally tap into electrical grids, drink from unsanitary water sources (water borne diseases) and throw waste onto the ground or in water bodies (unsanitary)

Question 38

Where is formal housing found?

Answer 38

Desirable land (clean and no pollution)

Question 39

Where is informal housing found?

Answer 39

Locally unwanted land (dirty and polluted)

Question 40

What is one factor that affects the location of housing?

Answer 40

Land-use planning.

Question 41

Why do authorities practice zoning in land-use planning?

Answer 41

They use it as a planning control tool for ensuring that the built environment is well-developed.

Question 42

What is one more factor that affects the location of housing other than land-use planning?

Answer 42

Whether it is planned by private or public developers.

Question 43

What do private developers look out for when picking sites? What do they develop properties for?

Answer 43

They look out for sits that are more commercially viable. They develop properties for their own profit.

Question 44

What do public developers consider when choosing sites?

Answer 44

The people's needs more than the profits.

Question 45

When land prices are high, what happens to the prices of the houses?

Answer 45

The prices of the houses will increase.

Question 46

How will the increase of the prices of the houses affect the people?

Answer 46

The people would not be able to afford the houses and would not buy them.

Question 47

What would the government do to prevent the prices of the houses from increasing too much?

Answer 47

They would regulate land prices.

Question 48

What could happen if land prices go up too high? ( informal housing)

Answer 48

There will be more informal housing to accommodate the rural-urban migrants and those poor living in the urban.

Question 49

What can help developers lower the cost of building houses?

Answer 49

Housing financial support.

Question 50

How does the housing financial support encourage the developers?

Answer 50

It will encourage them to build more housing, which prevents housing shortage.

Question 51

Places without the support of __________ and a lack of __________ __________ will have more informal housing settlements.

Answer 51

1. Financial support schemes 2. Formal housing

Question 52

Why would some places have more informal housing?

Answer 52

The affordability of housing in that area would be low.