Nearly everyone in California has an opinion about the homelessness crisis, but very few people have a realistic vision of what to do about it. In the Bay Area and Los Angeles, where thousands of ...

Alarmed that city enforcement of anti-slum codes for apartments has fallen years behind schedule, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday ordered a reform of the program to get it back on track ...

Amber Portwood has no interest in calling California home, despite her son living there; even if she did, she says she can't ...

The newest slumlord in Los Angeles is a pillar of German capitalism. Earlier this month, the city attorney’s office filed suit against Deutsche Bank, the world’s fourth-largest bank, for ...

Slums (our term) refer to areas of concentrated poverty where at least 40 percent of individuals live under the poverty line. In the 1990s, America's slum population decreased from 9,101,622 to ...

These compelling photos provide a peek into Birmingham's history, revealing the grim reality of life in slum dwellings. Years ago, a substantial portion of the city's inhabitants resided in slums ...

When residents of a slum cluster in New Delhi's Janta Camp area heard that the G20 Summit was to be held in the Indian capital, ... Then city authorities ordered them to vacate by May 31.

For years, the ravine sat in limbo, depopulated but for a few residents. But in 1958, the city reached a deal with Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, to bring the team to Los Angeles.

Evans Bipi, Rivers Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, has issued a seven-day notice to commence clearing Port Harcourt City of slums and illegal waste dumpsites. The ...

Rats, trash and typhoid: Los Angeles’ growing shantytown slum. A 50-block homeless camp, piles of rubbish, a feared outbreak of typhoid: these are some of the shocking scenes of downtown LA slum.

Kowloon Walled City was the logical if not inevitable form for a slum to take in Hong Kong, a reach-for-the-sky approach on a limited 2.6 hectare site, in a city where it is not uncommon to build ...