The Quality of Affordable Rental Accommodation: A Case Study on Female Migrant RMG Workers in Gazipur, Dhaka, Bangladesh

In Ready-Made Garments (RMG) sector, Bangladesh faced a big Economic change in late 80's. Now this sector which is the blood economy of Bangladesh where above 80% of the workers is mostly rural migrant women. These docile, vulnerable unprivileged rural migrant women workers now have become a vital issue for the socio-economic development of the country as well as to contribute to country's national economic growth. But their affordable accommodation, housing needs and living environment have been overlooked for years. The purpose of this paper is to find out their present affordable rental housing/accommodation environment of these rural migrant women workers in relation to their present economic status of two factories in Gazipur near Dhaka and study their quality of living.