Luciene Pereira The standard policy response to slums—relocate people, bulldoze the settlement, and build public housing ...

In a guest blog post, Indian journalist Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar argues that, contrary to their reputation for squalor and crime, slums provide a critical low-cost way for the rural poor to ...

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

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 ...

The slums of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, are among the most densely populated places on the planet: By some estimates, in some neighborhoods, more than 200,000 people live in a single ...

India is home to the world's largest adolescent population of 253 million, with about one in every five experiencing mental ...

Margarita Garcia has two problems: Too much water — and not enough water. And often at the same time. On a hot summer day in March, she headed home from her cleaning job and found that her street was ...

Residents gather around a mobile museum displayed on an improvised handcart in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, in Mumbai, February 18, 2016. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/Files By Paola Totaro LONDON ...

Devi Singh, a government school teacher and one of ten census enumerators in New Delhi, navigates the challenging conditions ...

Local residents say that drugs are no longer a hidden issue in these areas; rather, transactions are conducted openly ...