This week police raided a Nairobi slum and shot dead at least 22 suspects.
It capitalizes wealth that was otherwise hidden under the dirty shacks of slum dwellers.
Darin Gunesekera developed a stock market instrument based financing for slum rehousing called the SREIT.
Dr. Darin Gunesekera developed a stock market instrument based financing for slum rehousing called the SREIT.
"If the youth are not involved in the (slum) upgrading process, it won't happen, " Boniface says.
Many slum dwellers are also squatters, claiming tenuous rights to the land on which they live.
And that number is predicted to more than double to reach 2 billion slum-dwellers by 2020.
Until last year, the area was still classified by city authorities as an illegal slum.
Crime in the Cape Flats, a Coloured (mixed-race) slum, has exploded in the past few years.
The dead were mainly from one of Nairobi's notorious trouble spots, the sprawling Kibera slum.
For Riis, the slum's biggest problem wasn't population density, lack of sunlight or even disease.
Webster hopes to build a permanent clinic in Belen, a slum on the outskirts of Iquitos.
Within Bangkok's Klong Toey slum, there is one area relatively free of stinking refuse.
In Luanda, slum-dwellers complain that forced recruitment, a regular practice during the war, has started again.
The economic and the social structure of the slum does not depend on these types of gangs.
Much of Nairobi was quiet and deserted Wednesday, though clashes continued in the city's giant Mathare slum.
In Kibera, the country's largest slum, shops remained shut and there were small groups of protesters gathering.
But we can see the usual operation of commercial market economies on the issue of slum land.
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The grave of Mr Godwin's elder sister, shot dead in the independence war, becomes a slum-dwellers' toilet.
The protagonist in the movie is a member of India's most disenfranchised class--that of the urban slum-dweller.
According to the UN, Addis has one of the higher densities of slum dwellers in the world.
Thanks to him, she says, her ramshackle slum of Ojo de Agua receives free healthcare and subsidized groceries.
This particular block is a slum, one where we can see urban decay take place in real time.
Nor within reach of a taxpayer who had seen and realised they had paid for said vertical slum.
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The system has been in operation for more than two years in a slum in Santiago, Chile.
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In Kibera, Nairobi's largest slum, some 1, 000 people stood in several lines at one polling station before daybreak.
In Mumbai, he sleeps on the hard floor of a small room in the slum with a friend.
The revamp will "definitely help my business, " said one garment exporter who works and lives in the slum.
Las Adjuntas lies at the end of the line, wedged into a narrow valley crammed with slum housing.
"We need to encourage the informal settlers, the slum dwellers, to invest into this infrastructure themselves, " says Keller.
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