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1. Shelter
2. Family life
3. Access to community facilities
4. Family participation in community life
5. Economic stability
Criteria for healthful housing
(WHO)
1. healthful housing provides physical
protection and shelter
2. provides adequately for cooking, eating,
washing and excretory functions
3. is designed , constructed, maintained and
used in a manner such as to prevent the
spread of communicable diseases
4.provides for protection from hazards of
exposure to noise and pollution
5.is free from unsafe physical arrangements
due to construction or maintenance and
from toxic or harmful materials
6.encourages personal and community
development, promotes social relationships,
reflects a regard for ecologic principles and
by these means promotes mental health
Housing standards -site
Elevated, free from floods, access to wide street
away from mosquito and fly breeding
away from nuisances of dust, smoke, smell, noise
and traffic
pleasing surroundings
soil should be dry and safe for foundation and
well drained
sub soil water should be below 20 feet
Setback
Reasonably strong
low heat capacity
weather resistant
unsuitable for rats and vermin
not easily damaged
smooth, 9 inch brick wall plastered smooth,
colored cream or white
Roof
separate kitchen
protected against dust and smoke
adequately lighted
provided with arrangements for storing
food, fuel, provisions, water supply, sink
for washing and proper drainage
floor should be impervious
Lighting - daylight factor should exceed 1%
over 1/2 the floor area
Privy- a sanitary privy is a must, belong
exclusively and readily accessible, in
developed areas equipped with water
carriage systems
Garbage and refuse- removed daily,
disposed in a sanitary way
Bathing and washing- privacy and
exclusively belonging to it
Rural housing
3 rooms 5 persons
4 rooms 7 persons
5 or more 10 persons
rooms (additional 2 for
each further room)
Floor space
110 sq feet or more 2 persons
Thermal comfort
Accoustic comfort
Visual comfort
Spatial comfort
Indicators related to mental
health and social well being
frequency of suicides in the neighborhood
neglected and abandoned youth in the
neighborhood
drug abuse ( including alcohol ) in the
neighborhood
Public policy
Daylight factor =
Instantaneous illumination indoors
----------------------------------------- X 100
Simultaneous illumination outdoors