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Picture of a shanty town over "La Planicie" tunnel, created because of the rural flight to Caracas.. A shanty town, squatter area, squatter settlement, or squatter camp is a settlement of improvised buildings known as shanties or shacks, typically made of materials such as mud and wood, or from cheap building materials such as corrugated tin sheets.
Shanty towns in Brazil are referred to as favelas. Vila Parisi, Cubatão; Rocinha is the largest hill favela in Rio de Janeiro. Although favelas are found in urban areas throughout Brazil, many of the more famous ones exist in Rio — a widely photographed city. Cidade de Deus, Rio de Janeiro; Complexo do Alemão, Rio de Janeiro; Santa Marta ...
In many of the world's poorer countries, there are extensive slums or shanty towns, typically built on the edges of major cities and consisting almost entirely of self-constructed housing built without the landowner's permission. [4] While these settlements may in time become upgraded, they often start off as squats with minimal basic ...
MANILA (Reuters) - A massive fire swept through a crowded shanty town near the docks in Manila, destroying houses and leaving 15,000 people homeless, authorities in the Philippine capital said on ...
By 1990, there were eight major urban poor alliances within Metro Manila, which were composed of multiple local associations throughout the slums. [12] While mobilizations and organized actions throughout the years have won campaigns, some critics say that urban poor movements have mainly been reactionary and defensive, with minimal effect on ...
In consequence, the Asamblea de Barrios was formed to campaign for the rights of shanty town dwellers. This then joined the Bolivaran movement which resulted in Hugo Chávez becoming the president in December 1998. At this time, nine of ten Venezuelans lived in urban areas and over half were squatters.
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.
The official name for slums in Namibia is informal settlements.Colloquial names include location, shanty town, township, and ghetto.In 2018 there were 308 urban slums all over Namibia with close to 1 million inhabitants, about 40% of the population.