Tropico 4
60 Achievements
1,250
58-70h
Homes for Everyone
You had population of over 300 and no Shacks
20
How to unlock the Homes for Everyone achievement in Tropico 4 - Definitive Guide
2) Next go into your menu (Y) and choose Infrastructure --> Demolish.
3) Make your rounds around your island looking for as many shacks as you can find visually and demolish them. This only takes a minute or so. Make sure to look all around buildings and in spaces in between, as well as by the sea shore, especially if you have Fisherman's Warf's or Tourist Docks.
4) Once you have completed a fairly thorough visual search, go into your almanac (right trigger + Y). Use RB to go to "Lists" (far right).
5) Now use the d-pad to scroll down to "Residents-Housing", and again using d-pad go over to the right pane to find all the people living in shacks. You may need to hit "next" a few times.
6) There should only be a few people left in shacks (I had 6). Go to the people listed under Shack, press A (to display their information), and using d-pad scroll down until you get to their house. Press A, and it will take you directly to their house on the map. Repeat the previous steps to demolish.
Repeat steps 4 - 6 until you flush the last of them out.
7) Set the flow of time to anything other than pause (right trigger + d-pad right), and after a few seconds the achievement should pop.
Hope this helps someone.
A little trick here that I had to resort to, to get the achievement some people don't move from their shaks right away even if you have alot of housing so simply demolish their homes.
Yeah its harsh but now they can live in something that isn't a shed.
Remember to check everywhere that you have a building with workers since they will live next to their place of work as much as they can. I had to built an apartment for one shak on a mountain just to get the achievement.
Good luck this is a pretty easy achievement when you have a decent economy and alot of space.
During the campaign you may come across a communist faction task 'Help the Homeless' which requires to have no shacks on the map. You don't need to have the task active, however, it gives a good overview of how much shacks are left.
At the start of the mission, do not build any houses, but get mines and farms to get a good economy. Buy a foreign office, a ministry, and a minister of foreign affairs. Use the edict 'USSR Development Aid' when you can, else use 'Praise the USSR' and wait for 'USSR Development Aid' to become available. After using the edict, build apartment blocks where shacks are and use the 'Free Housing' edict.
To locate shacks, go to the Almanac -> Lists -> Residents - Housing. On the last page you'll see all people that live in shacks. Press on one, then select 'House: Shack' and press . The game will show you the shack. Just build an apartment block over it and he/she will move in after a month.