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  2. Illegal housing in India - Wikipedia

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    Illegal housing in India consists of huts or shanties built on land not owned by the residents (i.e., squatting) and illegal buildings constructed on land not owned by the builders or developers. Although illegal buildings may afford some basic services, such as electricity , in general, illegal housing does not provide services that afford for ...

  3. Homelessness in India - Wikipedia

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    About 78 million people in India live in slums and tenements. [10] 17% of the world's slum dwellers reside in India. [8] Subsequent to the release of Slumdog Millionaire in 2008, Mumbai was a slum tourist destination for slumming where homeless people and slum dwellers alike could be openly viewed by tourists. [11]

  4. Slum - Wikipedia

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    Slum relocation strategies rely on removing the slums and relocating the slum poor to free semi-rural peripheries of cities, sometimes in free housing. An example of this is the governmental program in Morocco called Cities without Shantytowns (sometimes referred to as Cities without Slums or, in French, Villes Sans Bidonvilles), which was ...

  5. Dharavi - Wikipedia

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    Dharavi compared to other great slums in the world. Map according to Mike Davis.. Dharavi is a residential area in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.It has often been considered to be one of the world's largest slums.

  6. List of slums in India - Wikipedia

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    An integrated slum dwelling and informal economy inside Dharavi of Mumbai. Dharavi slum started in 1887 with industrial and segregationist policies of the British colonial era. The slum housing, tanneries, pottery and other economy established inside and around Dharavi during the British rule of India. [2] [3] [4] Prem Sagar

  7. List of slums - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board - Wikipedia

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    The Board was created in September 1970 with the goal of improving the living conditions of slum residents in Tamil Nadu via numerous Housing, Slum Development, Rehabilitation, and Resettlement initiatives. The Board's operations began in Chennai and were progressively expanded to other metropolitan regions of Tamil Nadu beginning in 1984. [2]

  9. Slum Rehabilitation Act 1995 - Wikipedia

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    The Slum Rehabilitation Act 1995 was passed by the government of the Indian state Maharashtra to protect the rights of swamp dwellers and promote the development of swamp areas. The Act protected from eviction , anyone who could produce a document proving they lived in the city of Mumbai before January 1995, regardless if they lived on the ...