Mumbai's BMC has identified nearly 8,000 commercial units operating within slum areas, generating approximately Rs 21 crore ...

Millions of people in Lagos live in slums. Slums typically have poor housing infrastructure and sanitation, and limited access to education, health facilities and clean drinking water. These ...

Chandigarh has become the country’s first slum-free city after the demolition of Shahpur Colony in Sector-38, which was the last remaining slum in the Union territory, officials said.The demolition ...

Work, shopping, church and the pub kept different classes apart far more than 'residential segregation' in 1850s Manchester, ...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday (14 October) announced that the city will witness a surge in ...

A new study shows that more than 60% of buildings housing the wealthiest classes also housed unskilled laborers. The post ...

A recent report shed light on the social ills that face women living in slums. The magnitude of the poor living standards that characterise informal settlements and slums in Nairobi is overwhelming.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the United Nations prepares a 20-year plan to cope with the challenges of booming urbanization, residents of the world's five biggest slums are battling to ...

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

Mumbai: A small hut made of blue tarpaulin sheets has appeared on Vitthaldas Thackersey Marg, just minutes away from ...