A homeless encampment is seen on July 11, 2023, in Phoenix. An estimated 89% of Americans will live in urban areas by 2050, adding to the potential for a growing slum economy across the United States.

No man in the United States has had more to do with public works than ROBERT MOSES. He has been head of the state park system of New York since 1924, park commissioner of New York City and ...

Former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal urged the slum dwellers on Sunday to protest against the BJP-led government’s demolition ...

Currently, there are 200,000 of these communities across the world, according to the United Nation's Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, most of them in and around cities, and that number is ...

Now they tackle food insecurity in Kenya's slums Young men who once lived the “gangster life” in Kenya's capital have become farmers with a social mission Jack Denton , Desmond Tiro ...

Developed countries like the United States pay lip service to reducing poverty and the spread of slums, but haven't backed up their promises with cash, said Jeffrey Sachs, a Colombia University ...

In the United States, we tend to think of the suburbs as the historic domain of the middle class. ... In three years, the slum population rose more than 130 percent.

Meet the people hoping to revolutionise slum living with hi-tech, low-cost ideas. Skip to content. ... says Stouter, who runs Build Simple Inc, a company based in southwestern United States.

United Nations data show that Colombia remains one of the world’s most unequal societies, a cause of the country’s 45-year-old conflict. Most Read Nation & World Stories ...

He told the Senate Rules Committee he considered the site of the project to have been “one of the worst slums in the United States, with the highest child mortality rate in the country.” ...