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 ...

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 ...

MORE THAN half of the world’s slum population lives in Asia and the Pacific—including the Philippines—a new regional report ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A fire in a crowded slum in Bangladesh’s capital has burned or damaged 1,500 shanties, leaving thousands homeless, authorities said Wednesday. No casualties were reported. The ...

Amphibious excavators escorted by armed policemen have roared through Makoko, Africa's largest and most legendary floating slum in recent days, crushing hundreds of wooden shacks built on stilts above ...