Luciene Pereira The standard policy response to slums—relocate people, bulldoze the settlement, and build public housing ...

In a guest blog post, Indian journalist Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar argues that, contrary to their reputation for squalor and crime, slums provide a critical low-cost way for the rural poor to ...

Sprawling urban areas in Brazil, Nigeria and Bangladesh are all seeing COVID-19 infections rise rapidly. Yet, our research finds, many residents of slums and squatter settlements are not getting the ...

Mumbai real estate market's slum cover: Areas such as Mankhurd-Deonar, Dahisar and Malad have seen large-scale encroachments, ...

Margarita Garcia has two problems: Too much water — and not enough water. And often at the same time. On a hot summer day in March, she headed home from her cleaning job and found that her street was ...

The number of people living in the world's urban slums is rising -- but the number of city dwellers who don't live in slums is rising even faster. Check out this graphic from the Economist. It shows ...

India is home to the world's largest adolescent population of 253 million, with about one in every five experiencing mental ...

The slums of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, are among the most densely populated places on the planet: By some estimates, in some neighborhoods, more than 200,000 people live in a single ...

Just another day in Nairobi’s Kibera slums. Slums are characterised by densely packed settlements with inadequate provision of services. Reuters/Noor Khamis We live in an urban century. Already more ...

Local residents say that drugs are no longer a hidden issue in these areas; rather, transactions are conducted openly ...

Devi Singh, a government school teacher and one of ten census enumerators in New Delhi, navigates the challenging conditions ...