It is impossible to separate Koroipita’s story from Fiji’s larger urbanization and vulnerability dynamics. Fiji has seen a consistent rural-urban migration over the last forty years as households have moved to towns like Lautoka, Suva, and Nadi in search of work. As the nation’s second-biggest city and a major industrial center, Lautoka in particular attracted rural migrants looking for wage work in the port, tourism, and sugar sector. However, the rate of urban growth exceeded the ability of central government and local authorities to supply safe, affordable housing. As a result, families built temporary dwellings on marginal areas without stable access to amenities or tenure security, leading to the growth of informal settlements on the outskirts of cities [1]. In Fiji, an estimated one in five urban dwellers lived in such informal conditions by the early 2000s [2]. This statistic is similar to that of other Pacific Island countries where cities were finding it difficult to keep up with the rapid population growth due to limited economies and land constraints.