Hundreds of Swakopmund residents who rent houses and shacks have called for urgent action on Namibia's slow provision of affordable land and housing.

The residents have expressed frustration as they gathered to strategise on how their demand for affordable land and housing can be heard.

The demand for affordable plots saw a group of Kalkfeld settlement residents take to the streets, asking the Otjozondjupa Regional Council to allocate them serviced land.

The group says they are tired of living in squalor and overcrowded housing.