Union Minister Piyush Goyal addressed the issues of unauthorized slums and hawkers in Mumbai North while advocating for slum ...

Hundreds of roofs in the informal settlements of India's western Gujarat state have been painted in a reflective, white ...

STORY: For the residents of this informal settlement in India's Gujarat, tackling extreme heat could be as simple as a lick ...

The initiative, covering 400 households, is part of a global scientific trial exploring the impact of indoor heat on health ...

It emphasizes the need for public housing initiatives, like those in Jacksonville, to replace slum dwellings with decent homes. The film illustrates how local housing authorities work with the ...

A five- to six-member family shares space in each of the shanties. A narrow lane divides the dwellings on both sides of the terrace – just like a slum on the ground. Utensils, water-filled cans and ...

In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has more than 2,000 dwellings, most of them airless, one-room homes, residents who are part of the project, such as Nehal Vijaybhai ...

Agence France-Presse on Thursday was awarded top prize for its high-quality reporting on Asia’s fast-evolving environmental challenges.

The issue of slum dwelling is not unique to Bangladesh; as of 2022, 24.8% of the world's urban population lived in slums. In Sub-Saharan Africa, this figure was even higher at 53.6%, the highest ...

This came a week after the Bombay High Court gave the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) the go-ahead to develop Motilal Nagar through the Construction and Development Agency ...