Housing Crises in Pakistan: Review of Population Growth and Deficiencies in Housing Laws and Policies

The advanced technologies in agricultural sector and rapid industrialization cause massive rural-urban migration in Pakistan. In 2011, the level of urbanization was 36.2, while there were 21.7 million houses in the country as against the population of 186 million. Pakistan is facing shortage of 9 million residential houses, which is growing with the ratio of 600,000 annually. Pakistan is still in its infancy when compared with other developing and developed countries. Although the country has plethora of laws and policies to strengthen the housing sector, yet there are still many legal loopholes and gapes in effective implementation. The present research will explore housing demand and supply gaps, laws and policies and status of their implementation in the country. The research also finds the weaknesses of laws and policies implementation for the improvement of housing sector in Pakistan and Present some remedial strategies to strengthen the housing secto