Delhi’s (and India’s) urban poor may have houses to live. But are they habitable

The habitability of housing, rather than just its availability, will be an important factor in the future, given the trends in climate change

Live in Mumbai, work in Mumbai, but these workers can't vote in Mumbai

Ragpickers, DNT members and construction workers in India's financial capital don't possess the most powerful tool in democracy

Getting Indore's roads to play a double role

An Indore engineer has solved the problem of waterlogging in the city's slums by building sloping roads that lead excess water to the nearest nullah.

Court bars slum-dwellers defecating in the open

Residents of Delhi's slums find themselves in a Catch-22 situation. Public conveniences in the Capital are woefully inadequate, but when they are …

Former slum now has its own newspaper

A determined group of youngsters in Shaheed Nagar who started a weekly newspaper find their objectives are slowly being realised.

Plea from rooftops

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Google’s oversight

Maps>> Shantytowns • Brazil

Slum again

Africa's largest slum has a radio station

Where will these railway track dwellers of Delhi live after eviction

Already living in filth, misery, disease and hunger, will they now be deprived of the only places they call home?

Delhi's two faces: One rich, the other poor

The slums in the capital city will keep on growing unless the villages around it are allowed to prosper.

Improving village life will keep villager home

Voluntary agencies will have to come up with ways to make the village peaceful and productive. Only a satisfying life in the village will prevent …

Mumbai airport eyes slum land

Expansion will displace 85,000 families

Divine dwellings

An organisation set up by priests provides inexpensive bamboo houses to people living in slums and on the streets

The torrid charm of being a UP politician

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati has resigned. She's ended, as a newspaper put it, her "third honeymoon" with the Bharatiya Janata Party, a …

"The market usually decides the fate of slum-dwellers"

NIDHI JAMWAL discusses approaches to slum upgradation in developing countries with FAROUK TEBBAL, chief, Shelter Branch, United Nations Human …

"Ecosan is not a second-rate approach"

The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) related to sanitation rely on flushing systems. Uno Winblad, senior adviser, Stockholm Environment …

Run for change

Race>> Shanty Town • Brazil

Work matters

Proximity to workplace determines housing decisions of slum dwellers, finds a new study

No more slumming

Builders may 'get big bonanza in Dharavi

Jostling for jhuggi land

The Shakur Basti eviction drive calls for a thorough review of the railways’ mandate, politics of urban land and housing of urban poor

Slum voices

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Rains claim 120 lives

Size does matter

Children's toilets are a breed apart from the everyday adult toilet

Truth about PM’s 'Housing for All' scheme: it is far off target

Eighteen months and Rs 4,275.31 crores later, not even 0.1 per cent of the project could be completed