Housing Shortage

Lack of Clean Water & Sanitation

Madagascar has a two million housing shortage. This shortage is aggravated by the additional need for 100-150,000 additional units each year due to high population growth and urbanization rates. The result is high rental prices that increase by 10-20% annually.

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In Madagascar 93 percent of the 6.6 million urban population lives in informal settlements and squatters’ camps. Madagascar’s government reports that 87 percent of existing dwellings in the country’s Capitol are unfit for human habitation.

​Houses lack running water or basic sanitation.

Much of the housing available to the poor is part of informal settlements that lack running water, connection to city sewage, or even electricity.

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Individuals can spend a significant portion of their day waiting in line to buy clean water one bucket at a time. Many individuals don't have the time to spend so much time in order to get clean water and resort to using more readily available water from rivers. This water is unclean and caused numerous water borne illness. This has resulted in 2/3 of children in madagascar infected by parasites and 1 in 5 children dying before the age of 5. 

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