Urban Slum Housing Problems

Urban Land Market as a Big Challenges in Urban Slum Housing Problems
Land availability becomes an important issue in urban slum housing topic. The limited land in urban area emerge the tight competition in occupying the suitable land. Even, the basic reason why do slums exist is the limited access to suitable land.
More and more, urban land and housing markets are coming under enormous economic competition, and this is driving up the cost of all housing, so that even the most minimal standard of formal-sector housing is unaffordable to the poor. (UN-HABITAT & UNESCAP, Housing the Poor in Asian Cities, Quick Guides for Policy Makers 2, 2008)
The emergence of the slums mostly begin from the effort of some migrants to occupy some houses on the

However, only a half who have participation in the community activities due to some personal reasons.
It seems that the participatory within community activities should be improved to increase the bonding of the people to their communities.
The Interest to Occupy the Walk-Up Apartment
Most of respondents has known about the local government’s plan to build the walk-up apartment outside their area but still near the recent location. 74% have known about the plan but only a half have interest to move to the walk-up apartment.
It means that there should an effort to convince them to have willingness to move to the walk-up apartment in case the plan would be executed.
Income and Expenses
The result for income and expenses area that 34% has the income less than 2.310.000. Almost 60% have income around 2.000.000 until 5.000.000. A few of them have the highest income around 6.000.000. But, 23% of respondents do not willing to give information. While the expenses of most respondents are about 1.000.000 until 4.000.000. 16% have expenses less than 1.000.000 and only a few expense more than 4.000.000.
From the data, it can be assumed that they are not so poor. Most of the respondents can be categorized into low income

Some part of the land are owned by the local government, the others owned by the landlords, and a few of the land owned by some dwellers. Related to the density of the area, the Pulosari and its surrounding area is one of the densest populated area in Bandung, so do the building density.
Moreover, social economic problems also become the interesting issue in Pulosari area. There is a fact that not all the slum dwellers are the poor due to a sightseeing observation of the housing condition in the location and also the survey result of their incomes and expenses. While the infrastructure seems as substandard, some buildings represent a good quality in material and structure, also its façade.
The other important point is the ecological conflict problems. The Pulosari and its surrounding area located on the periphery of Cikapundung River. In this area, the riverbank almost covered by the buildings. Moreover, the domestic sewerage streamed directly to the Cikapundung River. As the consequences, the water quality has been