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Delhi health department's ongoing community-based tuberculosis (TB) screening drive in urban slums has identified 37 cases ...
Residents and protesters criticized the construction of a wall being built in front of slums in Ahmedabad, India, where President Trump is scheduled to visit next week.
Middle-Class Slum Dwellers There are over 2,500 slums in Mumbai and over 40 percent of the city’s population resides in them. To many people, slums are the sites of extreme poverty and chaos.
Her home sits in the area the city of West Branch currently wants to label as “slums” and “blighted.” Many people TV9 talked to said that it doesn’t describe their neighborhood.
The Slum Board has housed 16,000 people in the Lakshmi Devi Nagar settlement in Laggere, but in leaky metal sheds or ...
About a sixth of the world's population — nearly 1 billion people — live in slums, and that number could double by 2030 if developed nations don't reverse course and start giving the issue ...
A new report from Redfin underscores just how swiftly the luxury real estate landscape has shifted — but buyers in certain Rust Belt markets can find deals.
Here are the five largest slums in the world: Neza-Chalco-Itza: One of Mexico City's many barrios, Neza-Chalco-Itza is the largest slum in the world with roughly four million people.
A rat-poop-filled Brooklyn apartment building has become the priciest slum in New York, residents claim. Multiple residents of the battered Bushwick site on Starr Street say they are paying nearly ...
In the heart of Nairobi’s Mukuru slum, where corrugated iron shacks gleam under the equatorial sun, Sister Mary Killeen has woven a legacy of hope. Known as the “Mother Teresa of Nairobi,” this Dublin ...
When 13-year-old slum girl Natasha Wanjiru boarded a flight to the US in August 2016, she was worried about her siblings and other children in Kabiria slums in Kawangware. Wanjiru considered ...