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'Slum' landlord stuffed 40 tenants into a 4-bed house, making $450,000
The local council said officers found one of the tenants "living in a lean-to shack made out of pal…
Nathan Rennolds
Inside a slum that's become the Bermuda Triangle of Japan, where people go to disappear
More than 80,000 people in Japan go missing every year. Osaka's Kamagasaki slum is where some peopl…
Aditi Bharade
Take a look at Lima's 10-foot tall 'wall of shame' separating slums from luxury estates that's finally being torn down after 4 decades
"It affects free transit, but also hurts the dignity of the neighbors, it is a division that separa…
Kai Xiang Teo
Photos show the grim conditions inside a London house where local officials say a 'slum' landlord stuffed up to 40 tenants into 4 bedrooms and made $450,000
Up to 40 tenants at a time were packed five people to a room with only two bathrooms to share and a…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
How flash photography put a spotlight on New York's rampant poverty in the late 1800s, catalyzing the demolition of the city's biggest slums
But the world caught on when Jacob August Riis, a Danish journalist and photographer, started docum…
James Pasley
A TikToker traveling in Vietnam shared a video of herself crying over a local who rowed their boat and added the 'poverty' hashtag. She's getting accused of 'slum tourism.'
"I never said Vietnamese people were poor or unhappy," Fiona Wang, the TikToker, told Insider.
Reena Koh
A fire just razed a slum in the heart of one of Korea's ritziest neighborhoods. It highlights the vast wealth gap and tight proximity in which Seoul's richest and poorest live.
A stone's throw from Gangnam, a fire broke out at one of the city's worst-kept secrets: a slum, hom…
Cheryl Teh,Amanda Goh
Advisory for containment of coronavirus in slum areas
In case any positive case is detected in the locality, 'containment plan' will be put in place …
PTI
Ensure 25 pc of annual budget is spent on slum development: Odisha govt to ULBs
An August 2020 amendment to the Odisha Municipal Act, 1950 and Odisha Municipal Corporation Act, 20…
PTI
Here's how a collective is using football to empower women and bring unity in India’s largest Muslim ghetto
Football has often been acclaimed as a powerful tool for unity and healing the world. In suburbs …
COVID-19: Buildings in slums of north Mumbai to be sealed
Several cases have been reported from buildings located in slums and other high-density places, he…
PTI
Both BJP and AAP want votes from Delhi's 4 million slum dwellers for schemes that haven't taken off yet
Elections in India’s national capital are set to take place next month and the Bharatiya Janata Par…
Govandi, a densely populated slum in Mumbai, adds 30 coronavirus cases in 2 days
“The number of cases shot up in just two days of testing. The slums here are more densely popula…
Respite for slum dwellers along Delhi railway tracks as Centre tells SC that no coercive steps will be taken against them
The Centre on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that no coercive steps will be taken against the s…
Maha: Marshals deployed in Thane slums to enforce lockdown
It was observed that residents of slums and congestedlocalities were blatantly defying the lockdown…
PTI
A children's newspaper in India is employing underprivileged kids to report on the COVID-19 crisis
Balaknama, or "children's journal" in Hindi, is helping to teach kids from the slums of Delhi journ…
Havovi Cooper,Brittany Stepha…
Coronavirus cases in Dharavi slum grow by eight to 2,309
The civic body has, however, stopped disclosing the number of deaths from the slum dominated area s…
PTI
16 residents of slum in Kolkata test positive for COVID-19
Those that came in contact with the COVID-19 patients, including family members, have been sent to …
PTI
Arvind Kejriwal joins the battle for slum votes as he pegs his 'guarantee' against Modi's life-size persona
Arvind Kejriwal's 'Kejriwal ki Guarantee' includes specific impetus on unauthorised colonies or jhu…
Pune slum fights COVID-19 with self-discipline, awareness
Self-discipline exercised by residents of the localityalong with coordination among the local group…