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 ...

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” ...

Despite global efforts to improve housing and reduce urban poverty, slums remain a defining feature of many fast-growing cities in the developing world. ・Slums persist as a major issue in many ...

In the 21st century, slums are not anomalies at the margins of cities – they are the very frontline of urbanisation. Over one billion people globally live in informal settlements, often in the heart ...

KIBERA, Kenya (Reuters) - Crispian Amolo has no electricity or running water and shares a hole-in-the-ground toilet with about 90 people but at least he does not have to scramble for 1,000 Kenyan ...

AMERICUS, Ga. -- Habitat for Humanity has built a Third World slum in its own back yard as a sort of theme park of poverty that it hopes will motivate visitors to contribute to efforts to build ...

A vast flow of poor rural people, forced off the land by mechanized agriculture and sometimes sheer hunger, continues to migrate into the developing world's cities, desperate to find work and ...