Where Will We All Live? Slums in developing nations and huge anticipated growth in Urbanization

According to Passel (2011), urbanization is a ticking bomb to both developing and emerging economies. Rapid population growth has led to massive rural urban population. Persons are moving to urban areas in search of improved amenities. In addition, most industries are located in urban centers. Therefore, with the ever increasing cost of living, rural folk are moving to the city to secure job opportunities. However, most of these immigrants are often disadvantaged as they do not have the necessary skills to be employed in these urban firms. Therefore, they resort to casual jobs which are otherwise low paying in order to meet their bills. With their minimal pay, these persons are unable to meet the cost of high paying houses. Therefore, they construct unplanned structures that are otherwise illegal to have a roof in their heads. These unplanned structures are often called slums. These persons are often entangled in the cycles of poverty and they are unable to access to birth and pregnancy control kids. Failure to access basic reproductive control kits leads to increased production in their part. Kids produced are worse off than their parents simply because their parents are not able to assure them of quality facilities ranging from healthcare to clean water and sanitation (Niedomysl and Amcoff 2011).

            Despite the ever increasing population figures, there is still enough space for human habitation. This is largely because populations often tend to regulate itself over time. However, for persons to break the vicious cycles of poverty and improve their living standards there is need to invest more in education. This will ensure that access to good jobs is eased. This will enable them to increase their income earnings and be able to access better housing units than the slum ones (Simon, et al. 2012).