Housing provisions can not be isolated from other aspects of urban life, and both its production and usability are closely related with critical financial problem and the eventual difficulties faced by the urban poor. Bangladesh has among the highest urbanization rates in the world. A great majority of the urban population lives in slums and manages to build and maintain their habitats without direct or with very limited support from the formal and public sectors, often in the face of tenure insecurity and threat of rampant evictions. It is the common scenario of slums in Dhaka is, in a small...