Factories are also related to people through the ways in which they shape both the city and the concept of housing. The urban plan that was gradually arranged in Elefsina during the interwar period served as underpinning for the industry’s requirements. Elefsina was converted into a city ready to accommodate factories and workers, and, in order to implement this change, the city needed infrastructure.

According to Papangeli, forty lampposts were installed in 1924 to provide illumination for the public areas of Elefsina. During the same period, the clock was erected on the hill of Elefsina’s antiquities, as a symbol of public time, a common temporal reference for residents and workers of Elefsina alike, as well as an important landmark in collective memory. 

The arrival of the industrial age occurred gradually, first in Europe and afterwards in Greece, hand in hand with the need to accommodate a gradually increasing population that arrived in the cities looking for work at the factories. The cities, however, were not ready to accommodate such numbers of people and the initiative for their settlement lay mainly on the arriving migrants themselves.

In many cases, the industrial proletariat constructed slums around factories, which became its dwellings. The transition of Elefsina from rural fields to industrial smokestacks followed a trajectory similar in other European cities. The first Symiots who came to work at TITAN settled at the foot of the factory’s quarries.

The refugees who arrived in Elefsina as workers initially built shacks, which eventually formed the neighborhood districts of Synoikismos and Rosika. Immigrants from all around Greece who arrived as workforce often built their houses in refugee neighborhoods.

Still, there are cases where the settlement of workers took place nearby or inside the factories on the initiative of employers. These industrial townships introduced a brand-new reality to four major industrial centers of Greece during the period from 1875 to 1930. In Lavrio, Drapetsona, Piraeus, and Elefsina, employers responded to their workforce’s housing problem by establishing townships. This solution, however, created relationships of greater dependence between workers and employers. The stories of workers’ townships narrate the interactions between work, housing, and society.

The first industrial township of Elefsina was established by the Votrys plant between 1923 and 1924. To commemorate E. Charilaos, owner of the plant, the local society named the buildings after him as "Charilaos Towhship". During the same period of the township’s construction, Charilaos was also chairman of the Refugee Settlement Commission, whose main responsibility was to provide housing to refugees.

During its initial years, the Charilaos township accommodated solely refugees who worked at the plant. In the ensuing years, their population grew to include people other than refugees. The construction of dwellings within the factory grounds proved to be an issue, which was resolved by relocating the township site to a plot of land owned by the company in Upper Elefsina, near the temporary settlements gradually assembled in the refugee district of Synoikismos.

This relocation was of strategic importance: it provided housing to refugee workers, while simultaneously allowing them to live near their relatives in Synoikismos. The dwellings were demolished between 1980 and 1983 and Plateia Laou (Laou Square) was built in their place.

The relationship of dependence between employers and residents of the TITAN dwellings was manifested in the form of spatial demarcation. The families living on the upper floors of the dwellings were usually families of higher-ranking factory employees. Conversely, ground-floor residents were families of plain workers. In many cases, this relationship of dependence left workers who went on strike or lost their jobs without a home. In the strike of 1936, the management of TITAN evicted strikers from the dwellings. Another similar typical example of dependence was the eviction of the family of Giorgos Michalolias, after he was laid off.

This relationship between factory and housing was further broadened by the establishment of the Greek Workers’ Housing Association (OEK in Greek) in 1974, which implemented the development of building complexes that provided housing to workers all over Greece. The first workers’ housing buildings in Elefsina were constructed by OEK in collaboration with TITAN at the borders of the city with Mandra. These were single-story buildings with yards; their construction was completed in the early 1960s and the first houses were allocated by drawing lots up to and including 1965. Another workers' housing complex erected in the former facilities of IRIS was delivered to beneficiaries of the Hellenic Manpower Employment Organization in 2021. The township was named "Elefsina V".