WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Slums are areas of broad social and health disadvantage to children and their families due to extreme poverty, overcrowding, poor water and sanitation, substandard housing, limited access to basic health and education services, and other hardships (eg, high unemployment, violence).

Detailed explanation-2: -In addition to degrading their own environment, the presence of urban slums is increasingly determining the physical environment of the entire urban area. Streams are polluted, land is laid waste and hillsides are eroded through overcrowding and the lack of even the most rudimentary public services.

Detailed explanation-3: -Urban poverty is a form of poverty that is particularly visible in megacities, characterised by poor living circumstances and income, as well as a lack of essential utilities for a decent standard of life.

Detailed explanation-4: -A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and they are primarily inhabited by impoverished people.

Detailed explanation-5: -A slum is a residential area with substandard housing that is poorly serviced and/or overcrowded, and therefore unhealthy, unsafe, and socially undesirable. A single dwelling can fit this description, but the term is usually reserved for larger areas, rural or more commonly urban.

Detailed explanation-6: -Poor quality, overcrowded housing. Risk of forceful eviction. Lack of safe, readily available, water supplies. Poor provision for sanitation, drainage and solid waste collection. Lack of access to healthcare, emergency services and policing. Difficulty accessing government schools, and. More items