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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 ...
Some slums may have been viable for inexpensively cleaning up through use of stricter safety and sanitation enforcement. In the mid 20th century, a housing court was established in Baltimore with the power to impose penalties for violations of agreed codes of practice, which in turn helped to regenerate around 16,000 slum properties.
This category is for articles about slums, shanty towns, favelas and other urban areas faced with extreme problems of poverty. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
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The term, which means slum or ghetto, was first used in the Slum of Providência in the center of Rio de Janeiro in the late 19th century, which was built by soldiers who had lived under the favela trees in Bahia and had nowhere to live following the Canudos War. Some of the last settlements were called bairros africanos (African neighborhoods).
Most colonia housing does not meet construction standards and building codes. [31] Houses are often built little by little, starting as shabby tents of wood and cardboard. [ 14 ] Only 54% of colonia residents in Texas have sewer service and about 50% drink water from a non-tap source. [ 14 ]
Brenda Hiatt's five-book Regency romance Saint of Seven Dials series features rogue heroes who rob from the rich to help the poor in the notorious Seven Dials slum of Regency era London. [39] [40] The 23rd book (2003) in Anne Perry's historical fiction series featuring Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, set in the late 1800s, is titled Seven Dials. A ...
Skid Row is the unofficial name for a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles [1] officially known as Central City East. [ 2 ] Skid Row contains one of the largest stable populations of homeless people in the United States , estimated at over 4,400, and has been known for its condensed homeless population since at least the 1930s. [ 3 ]