Abstract
Environmental features that aggravate stress include crowding, prominent litter, unaesthetic built facilities and intrusive or incongruent sounds [5]. Such environments can affect both mental and physical health through a reduction in physical activity, increased anxiety and social disorder among residents [6]. Overcrowded housing conditions contribute to higher mortality rates, stress, infectious disease risk and poor childhood development. Overcrowding is a major problem of the built environment especially in slums and squalid environments. It arises from poverty, overpopulation and inefficient accommodation. It is a problem that has social and health effects [7].
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