SOME people are upset by slums. They feel sick themselves when they find four or five children sharing a bed in a windowless room and realize that the tubercular cough of one youngster means the ...

Shaun Himango said he's lost count of the times he's asked his landlord to fix the problems at his small two-bedroom apartment at 322 E. Sixth St. Among his complaints: exposed wiring, walls and ...

A new study suggests that the 'neighbourhood effect' of slums could help to alleviate some of their associated health problems. A team of academics led by Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick ...

It is encouraging that the Cabinet Secretary for Land, Housing and Urban development has recently re-asserted the commitment of the Jubilee Administration to reverse the current trend where 60 per ...

The night was torn by orange flames that rose to the sky after another massive fire—the fourth in two years—ripped through the Bou Bazar area of Dhaka's Korail Slum on November 25. Within hours, the ...

Well satisfied with his face lifting of New Haven, Conn. (pop. 149,000), fourth-term Mayor Richard C. Lee, energetic slum clearer and chairman of the Demo cratic Advisory Council’s subcommittee on ...