An estimated 83% of the United States population lives in urban areas, up from 64% in 1950. And experts predict by 2050, 89% of Americans and 68% of the world population will reside in urban areas.

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 ...

Fast economic growth in many countries often carries a high price for some of the poorest residents: Vast slums are cleared by urban planners and commercial developers, sometimes by force. But there's ...

Opponents say survey shows number of accessory dwellings units could soar By renting a former carriage house in the alley behind East Fifth Avenue, Wade Nelson said he could afford to live in Durango ...

Robert J. Booker is a freelance writer and former executive director of the Beck Cultural Exchange Center. Twenty years before the city, with the aid of the Knoxville Housing Authority, laid waste to ...

Fast economic growth often carries a high price for some of the poorest residents as slums are cleared, sometimes by force. But the Four Regions... Southeast Asian Slums Network For Housing Rights ...