The core objective of the study is to investigate the survival challenges faced by women living in
slum and the strategies they adopt to cope with these challenges.
The fire gutted 600 rooms of the
slum and left at least four people injured.
According to him, with the recurrence of building collapse, the need to embark on the upgrade of the
slum areas in the state becomes pertinent.
The total number of
slums in Egypt was 351 areas; 80 percent of which were demolished in the past four years and residents were given fully furnished flats in social housing projects.
The sprawling Dharavi
slum in Mumbai became the favourite tourist experience of 2019 in India and even beat the Taj Mahal , said TripAdvisor's Travellers' Choice Awards.
However, in 2012, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Katherine Boo portrayed a new side of life in the
slum in her book "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai
Slum," which showed it bubbling with hope in a changing world.
The
slum residents of F-6 100 Quarters and F-7 France Colony would be accommodated in the proposed flats to be built at G-7.
A
slum has been defined in a score of ways, ranging from a simple check-list of easily recognizable physical features to a whole complex of psychological, social and environmental factors.
At a special program under "Jaga Mission" here, the Chief Minister assured "Pucca House" to
slum dwellers by 2022.
Last year in October, the county government said it had a master plan for upgrading informal settlements.The Mukuru
slum is a special planning area in the plan.
The Capital Development Authority has started work on a project which will see the construction of high-rise buildings in Islamabad and will ultimately replace
slums. The federal cabinet has also granted the go-ahead to the construction of high-rise buildings in the capital city in areas identified by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
[1] However, most of these urban residents live in
slums. [2] Previous literature on sub-Saharan Africa has described
slum residence in the region in terms of various negative health outcomes.
Work has brought me to many
slum communities through the years.
According to Khan, the criteria for notifying a
slum was that the people should be inhabiting there from 1997 and posses valid National Identity Card (NIC) and vote registration of that area.