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- ADEQUATE HOUSING AND SLUM UPGRADING - UN-Habitat
The housing and slum challenge therefore remains a critical factor in the persistence of poverty in the world, depriving millions of urban residents their right to an adequate standard of living and housing,2 excluding them from the benefits of sustainable urbanization
- These are the worlds five biggest slums | World Economic Forum
Around a quarter of the world’s urban population lives in slums, a figure that's rising fast Here's a glimpse inside the world's five biggest slums
- THE CHALLENGE OF SLUMS - UN-Habitat
The majority of slum dwellers in developing country cities earn their living from informal sector activities located either within or outside slum areas, and many informal entrepreneurs operating from slums have clienteles extending to the rest of the city
- Informal settlements are growing everywhere — heres what we do
Slum populations are set to surge as the housing crisis bites The opportunity of solving the housing crisis Take Freetown, Sierra Leone, one of the most crowded cities in the world Up to 60% of the more than 1 2 million residents live in a patchwork of informal settlements constructed on precarious land prone to flooding, fires and landslides
- Slum Almanac 2015-2016 - UN-Habitat
Slum Almanac 2015-2016 In our world, one in eight people live in slums In total, around a billion people live in slum conditions today This not only amounts to a rather unacceptable contemporary reality but to one whose numbers are continuously swelling
- 3 billion people will live in slums by 2050. What is being done to help . . .
1 billion people worldwide currently live in slums - this is expected to reach 3 billion within the next 30 years Is 'development' really helping them?
- Slum Upgrading - UN-Habitat
The Challenge UN-Habitat focuses on the biggest deprivations for slum communities: the lack of adequate and safe housing conditions, clean water supply, sanitation and secure land tenure We concentrate on waste management, gender equality and human rights, climate resilience and participation of the local communities in the slum upgrading process
- PrActicAl Guide to desiGninG, PlAnninG, And executinG citywide slum . . .
acKnowledGements: This practical guide is closely associated with the strategy paper ‘Street-led Approach to Citywide Slum Upgrading’ A first version of this guide was presented and discussed during a public session involving many UN-Habitat staff The final version of the publication went through many internal reviews, receiving suggestions and comments and was peer-reviewed by a number
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