The informal housing subject in Syria has becoming ailment and attention for government
and academy sectors, that statistics refer to increment in area informal housing, that with
inability solution in stopping the informal march. So that, the rese
arch goals to define the
economic and social structure for families in informal housing areas, and study the
economic and social characteristics and relationships in this structure.
The research founds that there is significant statistical relationship between the economic
and social characteristics. The research founds too the economic and social structure for
families in informal housing area that consist of two factors. First factor is economic factor
which correlate with seven economic variables are: monthly salary for families, person
part of salary, percentage of family spending on food, percentage of family spending on
health care, percentage of family spending on education, family owners of capital asset ,
number of new merchandise having family. The second factor is social factor which
correlate with four social variables are: characters of house family, number of basic
associate in house, percentage of family spending on house. Family educational grade.
The great population development and the growing demand on
housing is considered the main reason for Unplanned Housing, that afflict
Syrian governorates centers, especially during the period between
(1981– 2010), the thing which resulted in the em
ergence of numerous
problems, due to importance of this subject-matter and its influence on all
aspects of life, and the necessity to find proper solutions to these
outstanding problems in Syria. The study of this subject included the
research problem, its importance, objectives, courses and population
growing number in Syria, and Governorates' City Centers and the
affecting factors, along with the immigration to these cities, distribution
of unplanned housing in them, with their areas and rates of inhabitants,
the reason for their formation, their population, architectural,
infrastructural, social, economic characteristics, and its problems through
an analytical study. Then the outcomes of such phenomenon, with
suggested solutions for it, for it is escalating continuously, especially
regarding inhabitants' increasing numbers, housing, services &
infrastructure, sanitation and environmental pollution. Eventually, it is
important to plan and address this phenomenon, even though the solution
will be an unsystematic solution for the critical need for houses.
The Informal housing phenomenon is one of the dangerous residential challenges
facing governments in many cities of the world. Informal housing happens when a crosssection
of society tries to solve their housing problems by themselves without gover
nment
supervision or interference. This stems from their limited financial and cultural abilities,
triggering a residential environment requiring sound designing and arrangement. There
will not be a final solution to informal housing in sight without addressing the reasons that
cause the informal housing phenomenon and ways of handling them. Moreover, internal
migration is one of the main reasons for informal housing that researchers agree on. So,
this recent research investigates the internal migration phenomenon being one of the
reasons for studying and analyzing its volume and direction. This is a first step towards
examining the correlation between the informal housing phenomenon and internal
migration. This research also deals with the internal migration effect on the demographic
properties of informal housing areas by a field study of a number of informal housing areas
in Lattakia. This study shows that internal migration is one of the component factors for
informal housing, showing its clear effect on the demographic features of informal housing
areas.
The problem of random lodgment in the big Arab cities is
considered as one of the lodgment and demographic problems of which
these cities suffer from sinking under the heavy load of this random
lodgment that surrounds the majority of these cities
under the form of
avenues and regions sometimes anarchically constructed and sometime
dispersed. This fact led consequently to the occurrence of multiple
lodgment, housing, service, social and economical problems.