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This is a list of slums. A slum as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat , is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between ...
In 2012, according to UN-Habitat, about 863 million people in the developing world lived in slums. Of these, the urban slum population at mid-year was around 213 million in Sub-Saharan Africa, 207 million in East Asia, 201 million in South Asia, 113 million in Latin America and Caribbean, 80 million in Southeast Asia, 36 million in West Asia ...
List of slums in Peru; S. List of slums in South Africa; List of slums in Sri Lanka This page was last edited on 1 August 2022, at 12:24 (UTC). Text is available ...
Slums in South Africa exist in all major cities. There are also rural informal settlements . [ 1 ] The slums are listed below under the city or town they are nearest to.
List of slums; References This page was last edited on 4 March 2024, at 22:03 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
This category is for articles about slums, shanty towns, favelas and other urban areas faced with extreme problems of poverty. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
By 1990, there were eight major urban poor alliances within Metro Manila, which were composed of multiple local associations throughout the slums. [12] While mobilizations and organized actions throughout the years have won campaigns, some critics say that urban poor movements have mainly been reactionary and defensive, with minimal effect on ...
Slums in Nairobi An aerial view of Kibera. There are many slums in Kenya, for example in the cities of Nairobi and Mombasa.According to UN DESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs), 55 per cent of Kenya's urban population were slum inhabitants in 2007. [1]