Just another day in Nairobi’s Kibera slums. Slums are characterised by densely packed settlements with inadequate provision of services. Reuters/Noor Khamis We live in an urban century. Already more ...

Abandoned as a child, Devendra Kumar built a women empowerment NGO that now impacts 2.7M lives through education, health, and ...

Several rehabilitation initiatives, including the Re-densification Scheme launched during the Babulal Gaur government in 2004 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Rina Chandran CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A commercial painter by trade, K. Raja dreamed of setting up his ...

AROUND 6am, the squealing of copulating rats—signalling a night-long verminous orgy on the rooftops of Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai—gives way to the more cheerful sound of chirruping sparrows. Through a ...

Forget about Utopia or even the dystopian Los Angeles depicted in Blade Runner. The future of the city is a vast Third World slum. This year, the world will pass a milestone so profoundly significant ...

The project, spread across 338 acres from Digha and Airoli to Shirvane, involved rehabilitation of around 35,800 eligible tenements under a cluster model that could have significantly altered land-use ...

The city of Fresno’s Anti Slum Enforcement Team is actively working to bring 15 Fresno rental properties — consisting of 222 rental units — into compliance with health and safety standards, according ...

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Monday asserted that the BJP government is committed to the development of the slums in the national capital and assured that no slums in the city will be ...

Nearly 50,000 JNNURM flats on Delhi outskirts to be renovated for slum dwellers Rs 700 crore unused funds will refurbish flats under PMAY-U scheme Delhi has 675 slum clusters housing 3.06 lakh ...