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Critics argue that slum removal by force tend to ignore the social problems that cause slums. The poor children as well as working adults of a city's informal economy need a place to live. Slum clearance removes the slum, but it does not remove the causes that create and maintain the slum.
Slum upgrading proved easier and cheaper and without the public relations nightmare that comes with pictures of housing developments getting bulldozed. Until recently, most countries had very little in terms of formal policy measures to undertake slum upgrading, and so the problem of slums has generally worsened over the years.
Critics argue that slum removal by force tends to ignore the social problems that cause slums. Poor families who may fall below the income threshold to afford low-income housing replacements, often families including children and working adults, need a place to live when adequate low-income housing is too expensive for them.
B eneath a gloomy white sky, more than 100 armed police poured into the slum of Badia East in the teeming megacity of Lagos, Nigeria. As they advanced, they cracked their batons on the unpaved streets and against the ramshackle walls of the shanties. “If you love your life, move out!” the officers shouted.
Slums in Manila can be found in four main types of locations: [8] by a river or near coastal areas; by an infill or a dumpsite; by heavily travelled roads; by road corners and intersections; A common characteristic of slums is their close proximity to commercial hubs due to employment opportunities close by.
Part of the promise of suburbia was its economic homogeneity. Move to Levittown in the 1950s, say, and you would be surrounded by people just like you: middle class, gainfully employed, and ...
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 ...
Most of Kibera slum's residents curse when the rains make the latrines overflow. But for a number of waste collectors - called 'froggers', it's the smell of money. They're part of a small army ...