Palma has been struggling with a proliferation of shanty dwellings, which, according to some estimates, have increased by 10 ...

A census is being carried out. Is 600 a realistic figure? There are now a number of settlements in various parts of the city.

The city has a dark underbelly that belies its affluent and stylish central districts, frequented by tourists.

Podcaster Joe Fish explored one such informal settlement and encountered residents ... Sharon highlighted the strong sense of community within the shanty towns, complete with regular social ...

Set in Europe’s largest shanty town and told through the increasingly ... Part of Galoe’s point that the settlement is a teeming hotbed of different cultures and ways of life that should ...

New Delhi, May 6 (PTI) As heatwaves intensify across India, disproportionately impacting the urban poor, an environmental group trialled various measures to combat heat stress in informal settlements ...

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The government wants to remove all shanty towns Some 9.5 million people live in these so called informal settlements which have been built up around the former townships. The ministry of housing says ...

Her story echoes across the settlement, where the men work as rickshaw pullers ... According to the 2014 Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) census, Dhaka had 3,394 shanty towns, housing around ...

Canada Real, a shanty town in Spain's Madrid Region, is a sprawling informal housing area that stretches along an 8.9-mile road connecting La Rioja and Ciudad Real. These makeshift homes, which ...