Badi Bhil Basti is situated in the Thar desert. The homes in the slum are tiny, makeshift structures made of heat-trapping materials such as tin, asbestos, bricks, cement, concrete and tarpaulin.

When residents of a slum cluster in New Delhi's Janta Camp area heard that the G20 Summit was to be held in the Indian capital, barely 500 metres from their homes, they expected it would benefit ...

Stephen Ochieng’ Nyandiare, a Kenyan man who rose from the informal settlements of Kisumu is set to receive a prestigious ...

Representatives of Slum Mahila Sanghatane, a city-based organisation working towards the welfare of slum dwellers, say that ...

However, while residents of Mumbai’s slums are getting bigger homes, they aren’t necessarily livable. Slum-free Mumbai Pre-1995, a committee headed by former chief secretary Dinesh Afzalpurkar ...

Slums are defined as densely populated and tightly packed urban areas, characterized by weakly built, incomplete houses that are inhabited mainly by the most impoverished communities within the city.

Razia Khan, 28, works in the kitchen area as her husband, Zubair Khan, 32, eats lunch, while their kids watch a mobile phone inside their one-room house in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums ...

A massive fire ripped through 500 homes in a slum area in Manila. Drone footage shows the bright orange inferno engulfing homes made of flammable materials in the overcrowded Tondo district ...

ALSO READ: Demolishing Homes Of Poor And Minority Bulldozes Human Rights In a 1962 paper titled “A Theory of Slums” published in Land Economics magazine, economist Charles J. Stokes ...

The Manila Fire District said around 1,000 houses were destroyed and roughly ... the cause of the fire disaster but blazes in Manila slums are often sparked by faulty electrical wiring or gas ...