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 ...

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 ...

Strange as it may seem, teeming slums could be the model for the cities of the future, said Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow. Not to minimize the despair in wretched shantytowns and squatter communities in such ...

In a significant advance for adolescent mental health in India, researchers have successfully demonstrated a scalable, ...

The number of people living in the world's urban slums is rising -- but the number of city dwellers who don't live in slums is rising even faster. Check out this graphic from the Economist. It shows ...

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 ...

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

One hot afternoon last week a truck braked to a halt in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The dust-covered tarpaulin was pulled away, and out of this one truck climbed 40-odd men, women and children — ...