“Caseville Shanty Days is just a fun weekend that brings a lot of people into town, with the games and the events,” said Michelle Louwers, office manager of Caseville Chamber of Commerce.

An estimated 6.5 million people live in the city with around ... something more recently established shanty towns do not have. Rocinha still has a reputation for gang crime and drugs.

The number of people living in shanty towns or “misery villages” in Argentina and particularly in the capital Buenos Aires keeps increasing despite a decade of sustained growth at almost ...

But in 1966 when apartheid was in full swing, District Six was declared a "white" neighborhood, and more than 60,000 people were forced to move to the shanty towns established in Cape Flats ...

According to the ECSR, Spain is in breach of its obligations to guarantee decent housing for these people, who have been living for years in this shanty town in the south-east of the Spanish capital.