Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A slum in Mumbai, India. Kristian Bertel via Wikipedia Close to 900 million people across the Global South live in densely packed ...

Each year, the first Monday of October marks World Habitat Day, which aims to reflect on the state of towns and cities, and on the right of all to adequate shelter. The share of people living in urban ...

Despite global efforts to improve housing and reduce urban poverty, slums remain a defining feature of many fast-growing cities in the developing world. ・Slums persist as a major issue in many ...

American entrepreneur and business owner Robert Kiyosaki said in an interview, "America is going to be the poorest country in the world, starting now." Kiyosaki, known for his book "Rich Dad Poor Dad, ...

KIBERA, Kenya (Reuters) - Crispian Amolo has no electricity or running water and shares a hole-in-the-ground toilet with about 90 people but at least he does not have to scramble for 1,000 Kenyan ...

AMERICUS, Ga. -- Habitat for Humanity has built a Third World slum in its own back yard as a sort of theme park of poverty that it hopes will motivate visitors to contribute to efforts to build ...

A vast flow of poor rural people, forced off the land by mechanized agriculture and sometimes sheer hunger, continues to migrate into the developing world's cities, desperate to find work and ...

MATHARE, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, snatching phones, mugging people and battling police. But when Kariaga's brother was shot ...