there can be little doubt that shelter, and housing, is one of the foremost entitlement that individuals need

to have if economic development and concomitant improvements in the quality of life are to have any significance. it is therefore imperative to see the possible extent to which resources destined for defence can be notionally utilised for the provision of adequate shelter. residential construction and the supply of shelter inturn produces the nucleus of the 'home'; this surely the starting point of the individual's personal development. "here the family survives as a biological unit, with the hope of an adequate income, diet, shelter and privacy in accordance with the world,s vast variety of climates and cultures. here citizens receive their first educational formation. here they learn-or do not learn-love, security and the sense of how to live with other human beings the house is the core, the central place, the starting point of all life in human settlements, in short human life itself".(B ward (1974)). people who are at an extreme level of poverty forming a substratum of great deprivation. the ultimate absurdity continues. people go hungry; they die prematurely; they lack shelter; and absolute poverty stalks the third world. "mahatma gandhi once said that a civilization can be judged by the treatment afforded to minorities. one way to judge governments is by the manner in which they treat refuges who have sort asylum on their soil".