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And the World Bank for Useful Com- Ments. We Gratefully Acknowledge Support from the State of Coahuila, and Thank

Housing, food, and water are considered to be basic requirements for daily living. Unfortunately, inadequate housing with poor water supply, sanitation, and ventilation threatens the lives and health of some 600 million urban dwellers worldwide (see, among others, Cebu Study Team 1991; S. A. Esrey et al. 1991; Galiani, Gertler, and Ernesto Schargrodsky 2005; and World Bank 2005). For this reaso...

Of Squatters and Schemes : Considering City - level Strategies for Housing the Poor in India

3 Acknowledgements 4 List of Tables and Figures 6 Glossary of Acronyms 6 Chapter One: Introduction 7 Definitions 8 Methodology 9 Limitations 9 Structure 10 Chapter Two: Housing for the Urban Poor – The Roads Taken 11 Slum clearance and resettlement 11 Sites and services 12 In-situ upgrading 13 Urban management 16 Where to? 19 Chapter Three: The Indian Context and a Brief History of Indian Housi...

Changes in socio-economic and health condition of rehabilitated slum dwellers in Kolkata, West Bengal

The cancerous spread of slum has been a rampant problem in urban areas worldwide. The acute shortage of housing facilities compels the poor to live in slums. Proper rehabilitation is considered as a very essential remedial measure to provide better living environment to slum peoples. This study is an essential attempt to gauge the effectiveness of a rehabilitation program, which studies the cha...

Slum clearance, privatization and residualization: the practices and politics of council housing in mid-twentieth-century England.

This article contributes to a growing literature on working-class suburbanization by arguing that both the residualization and privatization of council housing need to be properly historicized. This case study of housing policy in the borough of Brighton demonstrates that council house sales between the 1950s and 1970s were important in the residualization of inter-war estates well before the '...

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