Housing for economically vulnerable citizens accounts for half the land unlocked, influencing the narrative of the city’s ...

It was a day of gratitude and appreciation, as happy slum dwellers filled the hall of the Nigeria Stored Product Research Institute (NSPRI) Lagos, on Monday April 3. From far and wide, ecstatic slum ...

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 ...

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.

Today, over half of the world’s population lives in urban areas and it is projected that, by 2050, two out of three people will live in a city. This increased rural–urban migration, coupled with ...

The decision to finish the survey this year was taken during a review meeting chaired by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on June 12 Mumbai: The Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) is working on ...

Oluwaseyi Omowunmi Popogbe does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant ...

The Bombay High Court has ordered the SRA CEO to explain the classification of private land as slum due to adjoining slum ...

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 ...

Nagpur: We may not have big budgets, but our happiness knows no bounds, says a smiling Pihu Baksariya, as she carefully ...

Catholics of a parish and residents of a nearby slum, which undergoes redevelopment in South Korea, recall the times of ...