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An estimated 83% of the United States population lives in urban areas, up from 64% in 1950. And experts predict by 2050, 89% of Americans and 68% of the world population will reside in urban areas.

The government has declared May 10 a day of mourning to mark the deaths from disastrous floods and pledged to help. But some say the authorities... In Kenya's flooded slums, people mourn their losses ...

Hidden inside Lagos, Nigeria is Makoko — a lawless floating slum where hundreds of thousands of people survive on polluted ...

Using data from the World Bank and the Participatory Slum Upgrading Program (PSUP) by the UN-Habitat, here are the top 10 countries with the highest slum population: The United Nations Human ...

Housing experts have said no fewer than two million people were evicted during 91 slum clearance exercises in Lagos State in the period between 1973 and 2024. This is just as they also canvassed the ...

Proportion of Urban Population Living in Slums (2018): 3.5% In 2018, Belize had an urban population of 174,000. In the country, only 6,000 people lived in slums, which is the second-lowest absolute ...

The standard policy response to slums — relocate people, bulldoze the settlement, and build public housing elsewhere — is older than the slums themselves. It has never worked. The logic seems ...

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Though Isabella Mogeni lost everything she owned, she was lucky to survive the heavy storm waters that swept through the Mukuru kwa Reuben slums in Nairobi, Kenya, last week, killing dozens of her ...