Secure Tenure for the Urban Poor
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Whilst this target will hopefully be achieved, we should not overlook the fact that an estimated 837 million people are presently living in slums and that this is expected to double within 25 years. This suggests that the total number of people living in slums by 2020 will be about 1500 million, so a reduction of 100 million is modest by any definition. It also suggests that an equal or even greater effort is needed to reduce the rate at which new slums form and that the present campaign should be balanced with another one to review regulatory and other constraints to enabling urban poor households to gain access to adequate and affordable legal shelter.
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