The number of slum dwellers in developing countries increased from 689 million in 1990 to 880 million in 2014, according to the United Nations World Cities Report 2016.
The urban slum population is the proportion of urban population living in slum households. A slum household is defined as a group of individuals living under the same roof lacking one or more of the following conditions: •Access to improved water •Access to improved sanitation •Sufficient-living area •Durability of housing •Security of tenure
Residents have opposed attempts to develop Dharavi, which sits on prime real estate in India’s financial capital, Mumbai. "People think of slums as places of static despair as depicted in films such as Slumdog Millionaire ," said Sanjeev Sanyal, an economist and writer.
Have you read? Kibera, Africa’s largest slum, is just 5km from Nairobi city center. It is home to more than 50,000 children, most of whom go to informal schools set up by residents and churches. Residents have gone to court to stop the government building a road through Kibera, bulldozing schools and clinics and thousands of homes.