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Outline the problems of housing in LEDC cities and examine the effectiveness of different approaches to deal with them. Since 1950 the majority of LEDC’s have been transformed from rural to urban societies. The speed and scale of the current urbanisation in LEDC’s is much greater than it was in 19th century Europe; cities are growing faster and to much larger sizes. There are two main components to this growth; natural increase, which in 1995 accounted for 63% of the increase and rural to urban migration, the cause of the other 37% growth. Cities like Cairo and Mexico City receive more than 1000 new migrants every day While economic growth leads to urbanisation, it is also true that in many LEDC’s high rates of urbanisation are found even when economic growth is slow. It is therefore the speed of growth and the lack of money at all levels that creates the housing problems in LEDC cities. National and urban governments have usually given housing a low priority. It is assumed that housing is not a productive investment compared with roads, bridges, ports and power stations. When funds are scarce housing drops down the list of priorities. Research has shown that in Mexico City and Lima spiralling inflation caused real wag