In a guest blog post, Indian journalist Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar argues that, contrary to their reputation for squalor and crime, slums provide a critical low-cost way for the rural poor to ...

Mumbai real estate market's slum cover: Areas such as Mankhurd-Deonar, Dahisar and Malad have seen large-scale encroachments, ...

Sprawling urban areas in Brazil, Nigeria and Bangladesh are all seeing COVID-19 infections rise rapidly. Yet, our research finds, many residents of slums and squatter settlements are not getting the ...

The slums of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, are among the most densely populated places on the planet: By some estimates, in some neighborhoods, more than 200,000 people live in a single ...

Residents gather around a mobile museum displayed on an improvised handcart in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, in Mumbai, February 18, 2016. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/Files By Paola Totaro LONDON ...

Pregnant women in Delhi's slums face dizziness, anxiety, and sleepless nights due to surging temperatures over 40 degrees ...

A new study from the University of Toronto shows that where a mother lives in an Indian city—in a slum or a non-slum ...