A 23-year-old man charged with murder in what appears to be a random attack in Sylmar last year may have been motivated by anger about homelessness, according to a search ...

We went into Makoko, one of Lagos’s most famous floating slums, expecting a boat ride through one of the busiest communities in Nigeria. What we found was much harder to forget: toilets built over the ...

Every Saturday morning, Joshua Idowu, 37, picks up his soccer cleats and a whistle and leaves his home in Makoko, a ...

AI and robotics companies need data on movements in the physical world. Some are paying gig workers to record themselves ...

Solo living can be considerably more expensive than sharing a home. Here’s where people do it the most. By Vince Dixon Nine out of 10 Americans live with someone else, but the portion of one-person ...

Ohio Sen. Jon Husted is catching flak for comments about people in poverty as he touted a bill to tackle benefits cliffs.

In his latest 30-minute mini-documentary, Goldberg goes under Manila’s busiest highway — San Andreas Bukid — where around 300 people (about 100 families) live in makeshift homes.

The Asia-Pacific SDG 2026 report warns that rapid urban growth across the region is widening inequality, with nearly 700 million people living in slums or informal settlements.

Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic nun who won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for her work among the poorest of the world’s poor, died yesterday in Calcutta, India, where she had lived since her work with ...

Extreme heat is affecting the health and ability to earn a living of slum dwellers in Africa. Studies reveal a quarter of ...

This video goes inside Pakistan’s largest slum, home to millions of people living in one of the most densely populated urban areas on Earth. It shows daily life beyond statistics, focusing on homes, ...

Recent research suggests that rapid increases in obesity are a result of complex interactions between factors such as people eating higher-calorie diets and engaging in lower levels of physical ...