WHAT IS LOW COST HOUSING?LOW COST HOUSING is a term used to describe dwelling units whose total housing costs are deemed affordable to those that have a median income. IMPORTANCE When housing is affordable, low- and moderate income families are able to put nutritious food on the table, receive necessary medical care, and provide reliable daycare for their children. Low-income families tend to spend their residual income to fulll.BENEFICIARIES Community: providing housing for a diverse local workforce providing direct economic benefits to the local community, including increased demand for goods and services which in turn provides increased local employment opportunities accommodating people with the different skills required to support communities, such as shop assistants, bus drivers, construction workers, cleaners, nurses and teachers meeting the needs of the growing number of smaller households living in high-cost areas promoting economic and social integration ensuring that families housing costs are not so high that they cant afford to meet education and health costs and that there is sufficient security of tenure to improve their capacity to obtain and maintain employment. Residents: is more affordable than that already available in the private market, thus still allowing adequate income for essential expenses such as food, clothing, health and education integrates with the community provides a way for people to remain in areas in which they have lived for a long time, and to live close to their support networks, during changes in life circumstances such as divorce, retirement, or recovery from a long-term illness or injury.PROPOSAL Each house is freestanding and does not share any party walls with its neighbours which make it truly incremental, allowing its family to extend its home quite independently, as and when the need arises. Openings are permitted on any external wall that abuts the courtyard. Houses constructed simply and can be built by traditional masons and craftsmen generating employment for local workers (Income generation) The houses are structurally simple , can be built and altered by local mistries

CONCLUSION Low cost housing can be achieved without sacrificing the structural integrity of homes, as well as their aesthetics.