This infographic shows the countries in which the proportion of the urban population living in slums was greater than 30 percent in 2022.

Is he a slumdog millionaire? An Australian influencer has been accused of engaging in “poverty tourism” after filming himself ...

Close to 900 million people across the Global South live in densely packed urban slums, which often sit in floodplains. A new study finds that one in three slum dwellers is at risk of “disastrous” ...

Stencilled just above the stairs, the red mark in Mumbai's Dharavi slum is tantamount to an eviction notice for residents ...

AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) - Habitat for Humanity has built a Third World slum in its own back yard as a sort of theme park of poverty that it hopes will motivate visitors to contribute to efforts to build ...

Hundreds of Haitians have attended a funeral for eight people killed in a drone attack last month in Port-au-Prince. Explosive drones targeted a suspected gang leader on Sept. 20, killing nine ...

As World Habitat Day 2025, which falls on October 6, calls for ‘Urban Solutions to Crisis’, Pakistan faces a stark choice.

Argentina's "slum priests," who have been taking the church's teachings to the poor since the 1960s, were energized by Francis's exhortation to Catholic youth in 2013 ...

Billionaire Gautam Adani’s ports, power and cement businesses have made him Asia’s second richest person. Now, he’s quietly building a multi-billion dollar real estate empire that’s reshaping one of ...

Venezuelan authorities have begun moving hundreds of squatters out of an abandoned skyscraper in Caracas and into new homes. Named after its developer, financier David Brillembourg, "The Tower of ...

MAKOKO, Nigeria (AP) — Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos. Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard ...