Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Homeless men wait around for the offer of work in the slum area of Kamagasaki on April 23, 2016 in Osaka, Japan.Carl Court/Getty ...

According to Global Wealth Report 2015, half of world’s wealth is now in the hands of 1% of population. In Manila, the Philippines’s capital, there is also a deep divide between the rich and the poor.

A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday, leaving at least 2,000 families homeless as flames billowed for nearly eight hours. Drone footage from the Manila ...

To fast-track the redevelopment of Mumbai’s slums and move toward a slum-free city, the Maharashtra government has issued a new order stating that individual slum-dwellers’ consent will no longer be ...

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Civic bodies responsible for making the city slum-free under the “Jhuggi Mukt Bhopal” campaign are now themselves accused of facilitating a new informal settlement in the ...

In its effort to reduce the number of slums by five per cent annually in Lagos State, Lagos State Urban Renewal Agency (LASURA) has concluded plans to begin the regeneration of slum areas in Bariga ...