Roughly 30, 000 poor families agreed to move from shanty towns to medium-rise apartment buildings.
Many people must migrate for jobs, mostly from rural areas to the margins of cities and shanty towns.
In the great shanty towns of the Third World most residents are squatting.
As unsurprisingly, the shanty towns that surround most cities have multiplied and swollen.
Most live in poor black townships or shanty towns, ineligible for state welfare.
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Around 80% of all violent crime here occurs in the favelas (shanty towns), fuelled by drug dealing, drinking and poverty.
To help get people out of the sprawling, squalid shanty towns it has built 2.7m low-cost homes, housing around 10m people.
He reached the shanty towns of cardboard, sticks and cloth that bake in the desert around Khartoum, crammed with more than 2m displaced people.
The occupation of the shanty towns or favelas is part of a plan to secure access to and from Rio's international airport.
So their Africa has wonderful architecture but no roadside rubbish dumps, lively streets but no beggars, plush New York-style apartments but no shanty towns.
Many Brazilians who once inhabited the gang-ridden shanty towns, known as favelas, now have the disposable income to shop for aspirational products, from cars to DVD players.
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Currently known as Peru 2000, this machine has been set up on corporatist lines, working in shanty towns, and among peasant farmers and small business.
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Without mortgage lending, there are never enough houses in shanty towns.
Latin America is filled with megacities teeming with shanty towns housing unemployed and underemployed workers from the countryside, whose move didn't stop those nations from stalling economically.
Football is ideally adapted to kick-arounds in the favelas of Brazil or the shanty towns of Africa, which continue to produce many of the world's leading players.
The raids are part of a policy known as "pacification" which was adopted in recent years to help the state establish a more permanent presence in shanty towns.
He recently got in trouble for suggesting in campaign leaflets that he could single-handedly remodel one of Rio's largest shanty towns to resemble a picturesque hillside village in Italy.
The road to the town's rubbish dump runs out of the city beside a railway line, before veering uphill, past shacks reminiscent of the shanty towns of a Third World city.
Authorities there have highlighted a new community-style policing approach which has been adopted in a small number of favelas or shanty towns, but critics says it needs to be much more extensive.
Many west Europeans are furious at the growth of street-begging and pickpocketing (often involving children), plus fights and rapes, and the rise of squalid shanty towns on derelict land (or in parks).
The authorities in Brazil have arrested 60 policemen accused of receiving regular payments from drug dealers to turn a blind eye to their activities in several shanty towns of Rio de Janeiro.
With his pledges of income equality and more jobs, Mr Kilicdaroglu seems bent on appropriating the role of champion of the underdog from AK, so eating into its traditional base in the shanty towns that encircle the big cities.
Finally, our train heaves out of the station and past the creeks of Mombasa Island, belching out plumes of thick smoke as we swoop around shanty towns where corrugated iron roofs glisten in the rain, and ditches where frogs croak in the darkness.
Until the countryside offers a decent living, the lure of the city will remain, however awful the shanty-towns.
Brazilian police backed by troops, helicopters and armoured vehicles have moved into shanty-towns near Rio de Janeiro's international airport.
Many of the best officers are assigned to desk jobs, or to bloated riot squads, while violent shanty-towns are under-policed.
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Modern offices, hotels and apartment blocks are sprouting up behind, replacing the pretty pink-and-white colonial buildings, drab crumbling flats and teeming shanty-towns.
So most of the Uraba refugees in the end will probably drift to the squalid and overcrowded shanty-towns of Colombia's big cities, already housing hundreds of thousands of people driven earlier from their homes.
The nightmare prospect is that Turkey's farmers, about 45% of the nation, with no more state subsidies to keep them afloat, will flock to the cities, whose swollen shanty-towns are already a fertile breeding-ground for extremists, be they Islamists, Kurds or others.
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