Explore: Informal Settlements

Informal housing or informal settlement can include any form of housing, shelter, or settlement (or lack thereof) which is illegal, falls outside of government

middle class neighbourhoods.[citation needed] They can be small informal settlements or they can house millions of people. First used in North America

Murambatsvina in 2005. By the mid-2010s, the number of people squatting in informal settlements was growing. In 2020, the local authorities abandoned their plans

that he intended to regularize all the informal settlements by 2023. Villa 1-11-14 is an informal settlement in the Flores area of Buenos Aires of about

pavement dwellers in India and in Hong Kong as well as rooftop slums. Informal settlements in Latin America are known by names such as villa miseria (Argentina)

other basic services. The United Nations defines slums as ".... informal settlements lacking one or more of the following conditions: access to improved

and informal settlements. Formalized, regularized informal, upgraded settlements, consolidating informal settlements, consolidated informal, and scattered

United Nations, the proportion of urban dwellers living in slums or informal settlements decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between

Tshepisong is both an informal settlement and township, located in Region D of Johannesburg and established in 1998. This area falls under Johannesburg

Housing signs agreements to develop 3 informal settlements in Cairo". Daily News Egypt. January 3, 2016. "Upgrading Informal Areas in the Greater Cairo Region"