SOME people are upset by slums. They feel sick themselves when they find four or five children sharing a bed in a windowless room and realize that the tubercular cough of one youngster means the ...

Marianna Wanjiku has 55 rental houses in Kibera’s Gatwekera, Lang’ata constituency. But since 2001, tenants have refused to pay rent.There are others who have taken over the houses to rent to other ...

Kenyans will witness the first exodus of slum dwellers to new modern houses in Kibera on Wednesday. While addressing a rally in Kibera yesterday, Raila urged slum residents to move to the new houses, ...

Habitat for Humanity has built a Third World slum in its own back yard as a sort of theme park of poverty that it hopes will motivate visitors to contribute to efforts to build affordable housing ...

Photos show the grim conditions inside a London house where up to 40 tenants lived at a time. The landlords exploited migrants and poor Londoners, packing five to a room in bunk beds, SWNS reported.

Thousands of poor families residing in slum colonies existing on land belonging to the state owned Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) at Wagle Estate may get free homes in exchange ...

BMC begins demolishing 357 slum structures in Malad West for an 18.3-meter road to improve connectivity and reduce traffic ...

Stencilled just above the stairs, the red mark in Mumbai's Dharavi slum is tantamount to an eviction notice for residents ...

Gurgaon: A team of HSVP officials faced stiff resistance when it arrived in Sector 12A to remove illegal slums on Old ...

Like his house, Jose Santos de Oliveira is an island of resistance. The middle-aged gardener and his home stand amid the sea of rubble that remains of the slum community of Vila Recreio 2 in the west ...

Around 17,000 slum dwellers will get free homes as redevelopment of Mata Ramabai Nagar in Mumbai`s Ghatkopar area kicked off ...