2. • Slums: are basically an
unorganized group of patched
materials that make up a
small room for homeless
people to use as a shelter.
3. The United Nations characterizes
slums/informal settlements by one or
more of the following:
• Poor structural quality and durability of
housing
• Insufficient living areas (more than three
people sharing a room)
• Lack of secure tenure
• Poor access to water
• Lack of sanitation facilities
4. History of slums
Slums are often associated with Victorian
Britain, particularly in industrial, northern
English towns, lowland Scottish towns and
Dublin City in Ireland. These were generally
still inhabited until the 1940s, when the
government started slum clearance and built
new council houses. There are still many
examples left of former slum housing in
the UK, however they have generally been
restored into more modern housing.
8. Over one billion people world wide live in
slums
(statistics according to UN-HABITAT)
9. This means the 1
out of each six
people in the
world lives in a
slum.
10. Major slums around the world are found in
Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Kibera, and Jakarta.
11. 55% of the population of Mumbai live in slums,
which cover only 6% of the city’s land.
12. The Minister for Housing and Urban
Poverty Alleviation in India stated that
India’s slums population had risen from
27.9 million in 1981 to 61.8 million in
2001. The people who find work in the
rural areas find it too expensive to afford
housing so they build their own shelter.
13. Some of the reasons for
The rise in the slums is
due to:
1) the lack of affordable
housing.
2)And decaying economic
stats of people.
3) and the over load of
population.
4)The upraise of the
numbers of billionaires
in the world.
15. In the gargantuan Kibera, the
streets are unpaved, rubbish
strewn and potholed.
Hundreds of people might
share one small toilet block
and a couple of water
outlets. When it rains storm
water washes the
accumulated waste into the
water sources.
Internationally, 6,000 people
every day die from
preventable water-borne
diseases.
16. Fires tend to happen a lot in slums for example: The fire in
the Manila slum of Tondo injured scores of people, razed
2, 500 homes and rendered an estimated 25,030
residents homeless. It raged for seven hours before it
was extinguished, burning down 18 hectares of the 53
hectares of the former shipyard site where the slum has
mushroomed.
Manila slum
17. Workers spend more than 80% of their income
on food and with the decreasing quality of
food by contamination because of pollution
and unhygienic conditions. Dilapidated
infrastructure renders 30 percent of all
merchandise inedible. And the health stats
and mortality are badly effected by such
conditions.
18. • The lack of media coverage
concerning the UN’s revelations and
the worsening neglect to slums is
indicative of an international elite
mired in self-satisfaction and
concerned only with the immediate
pursuit of material gain.
