Social Sustainability

Question 1

Nigeria

Answer 1

500,000 people move to Lagos each year
Housing shortage of 17 million units 
10sqkm reef made for ships and homes
21 million people live in Lagos
¼ of all cars in Nigeria are in Lagos- traffic is awful

Question 2

Cambridge

Answer 2

Enough houses but they aren’t all afordable
Developers build houses that will sell best and what is the highest demand (not affordable) average house price in cambridge is £350,000
Population of Cambridge in 2011 was 123,900 but has grown lots since arrival of companies such as ARM and Astra Zenneca