Essay: Megacity slums are incubators of disease – but coronavirus response isn’t helping the billion people who live in them
In an article first published on The Conversation, ROBERT MUGGAH of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and RICHARD FLORIDA, of the University of Toronto, look at why the world’s biggest city slums are particularly vulnerable to disease outbreaks like the coronavirus pandemic…
“No man’s land”: Delhi’s urban villages face uncertain future
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from India…
Tackling coronavirus hotspots in city slums hindered by lack of data
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Containing coronavirus hotspots in sprawling city slums has been made harder by a dearth of reliable data, urban experts said on Wednesday, calling for more extensive mapping and surveys to help deal with the global health crisis. The pandemic has infected more than 3.5 million people globally, with about 250,000 deaths […]
“Tip of the iceberg”: Racing the clock to contain coronavirus in the world’s slums
Delhi, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation The first coronavirus death in one of Asia’s largest slums has fuelled concerns of the virus spreading unchecked in places where people live cheek by jowl, with aid agencies racing to prepare for the worst. Dharavi, a sprawling slum in Mumbai housing about one million people, reported its first death from […]
WORLD IN CRISIS: CORONAVIRUS CHASES THE SLUM DWELLERS OF LATIN AMERICA
OSCAR LOPEZ and ANASTASIA MOLONEY, reporting for Thomson Reuters Foundation, look at the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on those living in South America’s slums…
In slums and windowless apartments, Asia’s poor bear brunt of coronavirus
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Millions of homeless people and those living in informal settlements across Asia are at heightened risk of contracting the coronavirus due to their dire living conditions, housing experts said on Tuesday. The coronavirus has infected about 180,000 people worldwide and killed more than 7,000, according to a Reuters tally. A woman […]
URBAN UPGRADE: BUENOS AIRES BOLD SLUM RENEWAL FORGES AHEAD AMID HOPES AND CONCERNS
JOSEFINA SALOMAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from the Argentine capital…
India slum dwellers win property rights, thousands left out
New Delhi, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation India said on Thursday it had ushered in “a wave of change” for millions of slum dwellers – offering them the prize of home ownership – but it barred thousands more whose slums sit near temples, beauty spots and rich neighbourhoods. It is landmark move for more than four million […]
Four million slum dwellers in Delhi to win property rights
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Almost 2,000 informal settlements in Delhi are set to be legalised under a new law agreed by the government this week, which ministers said would give more than four million residents the right to own their homes in India’s capital. India’s cabinet this week passed a bill to regularise 1,797 unauthorised […]
African slum map exposes true scale of urban poverty
Dakar, SenegalReuters Urban scientists on Wednesday launched the first digital map of Africa’s sprawl of slums to expose the true scale of urban poverty and bring services to millions of people. The “Million Neighbourhoods” project by a team at the University of Chicago aims to map the whole world – eventually – and become a […]