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Bookmark or Share- Share of the urban population living in slums - Our World in DataA 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, and security of tenure.
- Slum | Urban Poverty, Overcrowding, Inequality | BritannicaSlum, Densely populated area of substandard housing, usually in a city, characterized by unsanitary conditions and social disorganization. Rapid industrialization in 19th-century Europe was accompanied by rapid population growth and the concentration of working-class people in overcrowded, poorly.
- What is a Slum? Definition of a Global Housing CrisisAs informal (and often illegal) housing, slums are often defined by: Unsafe and/or unhealthy homes (e.g. lack of windows, dirt floor, leaky walls and roofs) Overcrowded homes. Limited or no access to basic services: water, toilets, electricity, transportation.
- The history, geography, and sociology of slums and the health problems ...Slum dwellings are loosely fitted together from available materials allowing easy access for vectors of disease. Under the sun corrugated iron dwellings become oppressively hot, while at night temperatures in high altitude cities can plummet to lows of −4·4°C in Mexico City, Mexico and −0·5°C in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- The health of people who live in slums - The LancetExecutive Summary. Almost 1 billion people are estimated to live in slum households, defined by UN Habitat as “a group of individuals that live under the same roof that lack one or more of the following conditions: access to improved water, access to improved sanitation, sufficient living space, durability of housing and secure tenure”.
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