Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of people in Lagos live in slums. Slums typically have poor housing infrastructure and sanitation, and limited access to ...

In the past two years, the number of people living in slums worldwide has grown by 50 million. That's according to the United Nations Habitat Agency. The agency presented its findings at its annual ...

Dharavi, in central Mumbai, is considered one of the largest slums in Asia, but deep within this neighborhood, below the ...

The city wants to redevelop a shantytown in Gangnam district, where hundreds are defying eviction, fighting for a right to own a home in an area notorious for the exorbitant cost of housing.

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 ...

The city of Fresno’s Anti Slum Enforcement Team is actively working to bring 15 Fresno rental properties — consisting of 222 rental units — into compliance with health and safety standards, according ...

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 ...

Pasban Democratic Party Chairman Altaf Shakoor has sounded the alarm over the worsening humanitarian crisis in Karachi's informal settlements, villages, and slums, where severe water shortages, ...

The ability of Allentown's administration to deal with blighted homes and slum landlords –as well as the limitations it faces -- will be discussed at a special public meeting that will be scheduled by ...

Bipi expressed concern about the operations of scavengers at the Trans-Amadi industrial area who currently occupy large hectares of private lands. Evans Bipi, Rivers Commissioner for Physical Planning ...