Close to 900 million people across the Global South live in densely packed urban slums, which often sit in floodplains. A new study finds that one in three slum dwellers is at risk of “disastrous” ...

A terrible mix of unemployment, poverty, crime, and the climate crisis is making life unbearable for those living in the ...

Oluwaseyi Omowunmi Popogbe works for Crawford University, Ogun State, Nigeria. Social exclusion means being excluded from participating wholly in the society, often as a result of belonging to a ...

Photo-pass came as the means to authenticate the slum dwellers entitled to the SRA schemes. However, with the spurt of bogus photo-passes, the SRA schemes are going for a toss, reports Preeti Gupta ...

Although there have been many slum upgrading projects in Kenya, few can boast of successfully meeting the needs of the slum dwellers. PETER MUIRURI explains why the unique Kambi Moto slum-upgrading ...

The Kunti Deep Society in Kandivli West on Thursday. Pics/Atul Kamble A single slum dweller in Kandivli West is thwarting the demolition of the Kunti Deep Society, which the Brihanmumbai Municipal ...

BHUBANESWAR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Odisha will give land rights to slum dwellers in small towns and property rights to those living in city settlements in a "historic" step officials ...

CUTTACK: Days after the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) invited tender for engagement of an agency to collect user fee ...

Gurgaon: A team of HSVP officials faced stiff resistance when it arrived in Sector 12A to remove illegal slums on Old Delhi-Gurgaon Road around 11am o.

GOPALPUR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Every year, Neelabeni and her family await the monsoon with trepidation in their mud-and-brick home in an informal settlement near the coast in the ...

Around 17,000 slum dwellers will get free homes as redevelopment of Mata Ramabai Nagar in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar area kicked off ...