squatter settlements. Pakistan is also increasingly suffering from this problem of housing shortage. There is a net potential … shortfall of 270,000 housing units per annum in Pakistan. The housing poverty index based on data of PIHS (1998-99), indicates … that 19 percent of urban and 84 percent rural households in Pakistan are chronically housing poor. These households are …

Analysts of the poverty phenomenon in Pakistan encounter a major problem in analysing the trends in poverty, as no …