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 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.