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.
