As the world’s population climbs toward the 8.5 billion mark, there is the ever-present question of where some people are going to live. The answer for many, sadly, is this one: slums.

Kenya is among the countries with the highest number of slums in the world. Its slums are rated by Unicef and UNDP as dwellings that pose extreme hardship to residents. It is estimated that 70 per ...

As the Rio Olympics approach, a major issue has been security in a city where violence has long plagued hundreds of slums. The bloody reality was all-too-familiar to AP’s Rio staff: stories of ...

It is unfortunate that in New York and many other cities public housing has pre-empted not the worst but the best of the acknowledged slum areas -- that is, those favorably located on parks and ...

Population growth and insufficient housing have led to the development of informal settlements or slums on city outskirts around the world. Over one billion people live in these settlements ...