WESTERNISED RESPONSES
Government involvement in low-income housing has produced a wide range of public-housing pro-
grammes in Third World cities. Many of these were genuine attempts to alleviate housing stress among the poor; others were driven by less generous motives. Until the 1980s most schemes were based on Western concepts of planning and design which, in general, made the resulting housing expensive to construct and rent. Major initiatives may be categorised as follows: