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Housing, conceived as a set of services, is an important environment that has profound impact on the socio-economic and physio-psychological development of human beings. Yet, according to some estimates, about one-fourth of the world's population does not have adequate shelter and lives in extremely insanitary and unhygienic conditions. Thus, as Charles Abrams, an expert on housing, remarks, "The unevenness of man's advance from the lower species is best illustrated in his struggle for a shelter."

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