To find out, I spent the night in Cuatro, a shanty town in Manila.
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He lives in a squalid two-room house in the heart of the old shanty town with his wife and small child.
She moved to Khayelitsha Township, a sprawling shanty town near Cape Town, Africa's "gay capital" where she hoped to find tolerance.
He had been living in an illegal shanty town at Tor di Quinto on the edge of Rome, inhabited mainly by Roma.
Wander into Mtandire, a shanty town near Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi.
That has helped drive a great exodus of traditional nomads from the countryside and the growth of the most extraordinary shanty town I have ever seen.
Feeling immediately confident that I have the measure of my environment, I start to explore the shanty town setting, admiring the quirky design style of the bystanders.
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In 1967, Dekker's song "007 (Shanty Town), " detailing the island's "rude boy" gangster ghetto culture, topped charts in Great Britain and became a trans-Atlantic anthem for Britain's growing mod scene.
The 52-year-old daughter of a government clerk who grew up in a shanty town in the capital, Delhi, has emerged as the pivot of a fledgling "third front" in Indian politics.
In a nutshell, an unschooled teenager from a Mumbai shanty town wins a television quiz show, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, becoming rich beyond the wildest dreams of anyone from his milieu.
At the same time, Todenhofer was starting to wonder if there wasn't a downside to plucking a frightened and anxious girl from a shanty town on the edge of Baghdad and exposing her to life in the West in short bursts that were hard for her to make sense of.
Mr Sadr's followers, by contrast, are shanty-town Shias who have never enjoyed any kind of power.
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