There are around 30,000 homeless and government interventions are not helping to alleviate problems, she said.

There were 840,000 people with “affordability problems” while 2.5 million -- 500,000 children among them -- lived in leaking and damp properties.

Further, four million people experienced crowded living conditions. Around 300,000 lived in towns and villages with poor employment opportunities, too few schools and inadequate health care, according to Habitat.

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