International Journal of Applied Science and Technology Vol. 8, No. 2, June 2018 doi:10.30845/ijast.v8n2p9 78 Evaluation of Quantitative and Qualitative Indicators in Informal Housing of Slums (Case Study: Shahid Ghorbani Neighborhood in Mashhad Metropolis, Iran) Dr. Farzaneh Razzaghian Academic staff of Iranian Academic Center for Education Culture & Research (ACECR) Khorasan Razavi Branch, PhD on Geography and Urban Planning Simin Foroghzadeh Academic staff of Iranian Academic Center for Education Culture & Research (ACECR) Khorasan Razavi Branch,Master on Pure Sociology Sahar Soltani Academic staff of Iranian Academic Center for Education Culture & Research (ACECR), Khorasan Razavi Branch, Master on Economic Development and Planning Dr. Javad Barati Academic staff of Iranian Academic Center for Education Culture & Research (ACECR), Khorasan Razavi Branch, PhD on Economic Development and Planning Abstract This study investigated the causes of informal settlements and attitudes related to the pathology of Shahid Ghorbani neighborhood in District 4 of Mashhad. About 11.8 percent of total area and 31.46% of population of Mashhad city belong to the Informal settlements and12 percent of them is in District 4 where Shahid Ghorbani eighborhood have more than half of it. The aim of this study is to understand the conditions and characteristics of informal housing. Then finding out the potential of informal settlements through the provision of housing as the most basic needs of human societies and reducing physical damage. This research by using descriptive and field study of 300 questionnaires in case study area shows Shahid Ghorbani neighborhood housing situation. The indicators are divided into two groups of quantitative and qualitative indicators and a total of 11 indicators have been investigated. Finally, using SWOT model housing assessed in the neighborhood. Keywords: Informal Settlement, Housing Indicators, Shahid Ghorbani Neighborhood, Mashhad. 1.Introduction According to the UN, informal settlements are introduced as the main challenge of the third millennium (Ababsa, et.al, 2012). The speed of urbanization in developing countries such as Iran, is more than the developed countries (Amkachi, 2003).This rapid growth, has followed by many problems for these countries( Rostam Zadeh, 2012). This phenomenon is influenced not only within informal settlements, but in some cases a region from the '1990s and later (Iran Doost, 2012). The remarkable thing is that poverty raises the inability to housing in the official market and the formation of informal settlements. And the existence of these settlements as proof of the existence of poverty (Poor Mohamadi, 2000). Mashhad as the second largest metropolis in Iran is taken into consideration along with renovation of social and economic structures of the 1950s onwards, by immigrants and the outbreak of war increase the immigration from early 1980 and makes it the second metropolis of the country after Tehran (Hatami Nejad, 2003). This increase in population has led to an increase in population of margins. So that from the 1980s about 28 percent of the total population accounted for population of margins and this ratio have not been decrease (Mirei and et.al, 2012).