A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and they are primarily inhabited by impoverished people. [1] .

Dec 11, 2024 · While slums offer affordable housing to low-income families, they are characterized by substandard housing quality, limited access to urban amenities, and unsanitary conditions.

Mar 1, 2025 · Hutments – one of the least used terms to designate “beggars’ villages”, “straw-house villages” or more bluntly “slums” or “shantytown” – became a standard feature of Shanghai’s urban landscape in the early 1920s.

Jan 1, 2012 · Over time, due to economic crisis and above all war, "hutments" slowly colonized the whole urban space and became a massive housing issue and a problematic historical legacy after 1949. This...

Slums represent one of the main types of housing in many growing urban cities from Kibera in Nairobi, to New Delhi and Manila. The effects of poverty related to the growth of slums span everything from poor health to education.

Huts or shanties built on illegal land are sometimes assembled with brick and concrete, but often made with cardboard, tin and plastic. Hut communities, or slums, may be managed by slum lords, which may have access to water, but rarely sewer facilities. [17]

The gathering of huts in slum creates poor quality of living condition. It results in narrow and dirty roads, dimly lighted huts, queue in water-supply tap and a regular quarrel among slum dwellers.

Sep 15, 2014 · The slum huts that shamed Brisbane A HIDDEN population lived in atrocious conditions in 12 camps scattered around Brisbane in the 1950s as the city battled a brutal housing shortage.

Mar 29, 2019 · We must learn to see past the spatial irregularity, surface grime and patchy aesthetic of informal housing. Informal housing, be it in the barrio, tugurio, favela, bidonville, gecekondu or kampung, supports the majority of rapidly urbanizing populations in cities of …

Aug 21, 2024 · Studies of slum redevelopment projects in India, for example, have found that high-rise residents experience increased social isolation—a mismatch between lifestyle and building design—and increased costs associated with living in the new building.