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Recent order-of-magnitude estimates by UN-Habitat put the total population of slum dwellers in the developing world at about 900 million, accounting for 43 percent of the urban population of these countries (UN-Habitat 2003).
I read an interesting article (which you can’t find on their site) in the Modesto Bee the other day called, Squatter Communites Deserve a Chance that speaks to many of the issues poverty creates in any community.
His final words rang so true:
Check out the full articleForget structural adjustments, privatization and free markets. It’s time to invest in the basics: water, sewers and sanitation. And here’s another item that will resonate with people in every country of the developing world: Export a new component of freedom—the freedom to build.
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