SOME people are upset by slums. They feel sick themselves when they find four or five children sharing a bed in a windowless room and realize that the tubercular cough of one youngster means the ...
MORE THAN half of the world’s slum population lives in Asia and the Pacific—including the Philippines—a new regional report ...
Fast economic growth often carries a high price for some of the poorest residents as slums are cleared, sometimes by force. But the Four Regions... Southeast Asian Slums Network For Housing Rights ...
Robert J. Booker is a freelance writer and former executive director of the Beck Cultural Exchange Center. Twenty years before the city, with the aid of the Knoxville Housing Authority, laid waste to ...