Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Homeless men wait around for the offer of work in the slum area of Kamagasaki on April 23, 2016 in Osaka, Japan.Carl Court/Getty ...

Sprawling urban areas in Brazil, Nigeria and Bangladesh are all seeing COVID-19 infections rise rapidly. Yet, our research finds, many residents of slums and squatter settlements are not getting the ...

Jakarta slum areas fall by over half since 2017, while green space expands gradually but remains below the 30% target.

Just another day in Nairobi’s Kibera slums. Slums are characterised by densely packed settlements with inadequate provision of services. Reuters/Noor Khamis We live in an urban century. Already more ...

Mumbai real estate market's slum cover: Areas such as Mankhurd-Deonar, Dahisar and Malad have seen large-scale encroachments, according to new findings by SRA ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday, leaving at least 2,000 families homeless as ...

WARE, Mass. (WWLP) – Driving into downtown Ware, Main Street is decorated for the holidays; but when you look closely, you see empty storefronts, boarded up buildings, and fenced entrances. That’s why ...

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Friday directed the state government to set up a high-level expert committee within four ...

Several groups, some claiming links to the ruling party, have allegedly been involved in grabbing shops and slum houses, as well as extortion and intimidation, in the Kalyanpur Porabosti slum area of ...