HEAVY rural to urban migration, coupl-ed with continually rising construction costs have caused over-crowding and sub-standard living conditions in the urban areas of Liberia, a nation of 1.2 million inhabitants, There is now a na-tional shortage of at least 15,000 hous-ing units in the urban areas, of which 10,000 are in the capital, Monrovia.
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