| 单词 | shantytown |
| 例句 | Scott’s shantytown for the homeless was built near a rocky knoll and the residents christened it Tobruk, after the battle in the North Africa campaign of the war. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Near the sugar mill was a large television screen in an iron grill cage that the government had installed so that the shantytown dwellers could watch the state-sponsored news at eight o’clock every night. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The Alexandra of my childhood and youth was a shantytown of mostly shacks, a few decent houses, lots of gutters and lots of unpaved, potholed streets with numbers from First to Twenty-third. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Alexandra continued being the decaying shantytown it was before I was born. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z As I moved closer to the home where my host family lived, I couldn’t stop staring at the shantytown. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z A carload of household employees from the night shift on their way home to the shantytown margins of the city. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t pay to be brought to a shantytown. Where are we going?” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Their feet sounded as though they were playing a wet wind instrument as they slipped in and out of the puddles between the shacks in the shantytown. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The idea caught on in a big way, and trailer parks across the country had quickly evolved into “stacks” like this one—strange hybrids of shantytowns, squatter settlements, and refugee camps. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z At least one million, and perhaps as many as two million, were homeless, living on the streets or in shantytowns like Seattle’s Hooverville. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A train car or a shantytown by the railroad tracks seemed a more welcoming place. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He raised the hat in a gesture that took in the entire neighborhood, the ghetto with its shantytown porches, unpaved streets, and disconsolate laundry. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z MDR had claimed the life of a close friend, a priest named Jack Roussin, who had been living and working in a shantytown on the outskirts of Lima, the capital of Peru. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He never went downtown, much less to the outskirts of the city or the shantytowns. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I was born to them at a time when they were living in a shantytown in Port-au-Prince and had nothing. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, in the shantytowns and working- class neighborhoods whole families—parents, children, and grandparents—took to the streets in their Sunday best, gaily making their way toward the center of the city. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you meet any resistance in the shantytowns or slums?” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early nineties, Father Jack left St. Mary’s to serve the needs of a church in a shantytown called Carabayllo, outside of Lima. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Those who stood the best chance of contracting TB, which was usually spread by the infected person coughing or sneezing, lived in crowded peasant huts, urban slums, shantytowns, prisons, or homeless shelters. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z So I flew really good when I got up above the surface, going over the shantytowns that had been built up around the cooling steeples. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Cement walls were erected to hide the most unsightly shantytowns from the eyes of tourists and others who preferred not to see them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1967, at the invitation of Dr. Marian Wright Edelman, Bobby Kennedy had visited the poor shantytowns in the Mississippi Delta and saw personally the plight of the poor in that area. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A few blocks south of Yesler, in a shantytown sprawling along the edge of Elliott Bay, children awoke in damp cardboard boxes that served as beds. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The photograph shows the snowy Palisades, a stretch of frozen Hudson, and several bleak, thin-walled houses in the shantytown that arose during the Depression in what is now Inwood Hill Park. The Underseen History of New York City’s Parks 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z The people I deal with in the camps and in the shantytowns, they have no idea where I come from. Q&A: Author Amy Wilentz and the Lure of Haiti 2013-01-28T15:00:18Z Sentiment inside the shantytown is galvanized around our mutual suffering, as Mr. Mac sings heart-tugging numbers like “Soup,” a mournful ode to that minimal meal, and the classic “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” Taylor Mac’s ‘A 24-Decade History of Popular Music,’ 1930s-1950s 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Actually, there are many people who saw the joyful side of him, especially the charismatic Catholics and evangelical pastors with whom he used to pray and the poor people in the shantytowns. Book Talk: Great Reformer biography links Pope Francis to Argentine roots 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Ambitiously allegorical, “Good Manners” dramatizes class and racial tensions in contemporary Brazil by creating contrasting worlds: rich and poor, black and white, high-rise chic and shantytown. Review: ‘Good Manners’ Is a Twisty Werewolf Tale From Brazil 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z At night, Zagete teaches dance; by day, he is one of the instruments of that dream – a member of a task force that breaks up the shantytowns to make way for urban renewal. Greatest Cities of the World and Welcome to Lagos 2010-04-30T07:00:00Z A morning bus carried me across scraggly plains dotted with skeletal trees and mud-brick shantytowns. Morocco, From Coast to Desert 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z The motherless young girl's world consists of a small but tightly-knit shantytown community on the bayou with wild animals, both real and imagined. Louisiana-shot award winner premieres in N.O. 2012-06-26T03:21:09Z Along the way, he encountered Gypsies making sausage on the floor of a Romanian hovel and living in weirdly beautiful shantytowns in Slovakia and tents in Afghanistan. T Magazine: Viva Roma 2011-03-10T23:22:36Z The result of intensive, immersive observation over the course of four years in a Mumbai shantytown, this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction reads like a great 19th-century novel, bursting at the seams with memorable characters. 2012′s best — so far! 2012-07-04T14:00:00Z A man and a woman, tramping from shantytown to shantytown, have arrived back in New York. 7 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Essentially they're an unsanctioned military force that happens to drive trucks, with access to decent housing as a perk of the job while the least fortunate are relegated to shantytowns choked by poisonous air. The working-class hero of "Black Knight" is noble, but we've done this apocalypse many times before 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z Residents complained to the police about Deadheads, who overran the entry gates and turned the adjacent Symphony Woods into a trash-filled shantytown. From Jimi and Janis to assorted festivals, 50 years at Merriweather Post 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Her world consists of a tight-knit, shantytown community on the bayou with wild animals, both real and imagined. First lady plugs `Beasts of the Southern Wild' 2013-02-13T18:59:09Z Large, colorful prints of a Shanghai street or an Argentine shantytown are too crisp, artificially alienated. The Disappearing World of Wolfgang Tillmans 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The Favela chair, made in the early 1990s, was more hopeful, a frenzied-looking bramble of small slats of wood nailed together and inspired by the ad hoc structures of Brazil’s favelas, or shantytowns. Fernando Campana, Provocateur of Furniture Design, Is Dead at 61 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z But there used to be a whole shantytown here. Russell Banks Talks About ?Lost Memory of Skin? 2011-10-14T16:59:08Z In one wearable work that recalls a shantytown, little houses on stilts made of cardboard, wood and plastic spring hither and thither across a mountain, from which the artist's nude feet protrude. Artist of the week 150: Emily Speed 2011-08-11T15:26:52Z The director Penny Woolcock has sensitively updated the story from ancient Ceylon to an unspecified Asian country today, set in a coastal shantytown where villages both depend upon the sea and fear its power. Classical Music & Opera Listings for Jan. 8-14 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Damon plays Max, a blue-collar worker with a criminal past struggling with robot bureaucrats and policemen in his shantytown. 'Elysium' delivers action, destruction and a deeper message on life 2013-08-07T17:44:45Z When the scrim lifts, we see a coastal shantytown with multilevel, rickety wood platforms and a low dock with lapping water at the shoreline. Review: A Precious Harvest in ‘The Pearl Fishers’ at the Met 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z The shopkeepers and beggars all know him; a man at the entrance to the shantytown said, “I follow you!” when he spotted Soofi on our visit. The Delhi Walla’s Visions of a Possibly Vanishing India 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z In New Orleans, Swoon helped create a shantytown where each house is a musical instrument. Swoon Blurs the Line Between Art and Activism 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z There was TEDxKibera, held in one of Africa’s largest shantytowns in Nairobi, Kenya. Opening Up an Elite Brand to the Masses 2010-09-24T20:40:00Z By 2010, Ms. Sabouni said, almost half of the Syrian population was living in “informal housing” — shantytowns that were sorely lacking in infrastructure and amenities. Trapped in Homs, Architect Imagines a New Future for Syrian Cities 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z One YouTube video, attributed to MC Smith, claims to be a recording of a funk party held in the Chatuba shantytown to celebrate the birthday of FB, one of Rio's most wanted men. Rio funk rappers arrested on suspicion of links to drug gangs 2010-12-15T20:28:19Z Swoon packed the cardboard and balsa scale models for the new iteration of her musical shantytown project, “The Music Box,” into her suitcase for her travels. Swoon Blurs the Line Between Art and Activism 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Many of the pictures in “Civilized” depict slums or shantytowns, and even the most orderly scenes in the Flashpoint Gallery show include an irrational human element. In the galleries: Few hard edges in sight 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z A former cop goes undercover inside a Buenos Aires lockup that resembles a fortified, Felliniesque shantytown, in a show that makes most American prison dramas look like work release at Disneyland. The 30 Best International TV Shows of the Decade 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z The bodyguards pried open the doors of our S.U.V. and told us to run toward a stage that had been set up in the middle of the shantytown. The Would-Be Prince of Port-au-Prince 2011-07-17T04:45:24Z Originally an informal shantytown for Port-au-Prince's poorest, over the years it had hardened into something more solid in the ravine's depths – a home for almost 6,000 people. Haiti survivors 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z The bureaucratic pallor of Federal Triangle conceals the site of a disease- ridden shantytown called Murder Bay. Book World: ‘Empire of Mud,’ by J.D. Dickey Marville photographed a few of their new homes on the city’s outskirts, like the fetid shantytown at the rue Champlain. Critic’s Notebook: Charles Marville’s Pictures Show What Was Destroyed 2014-03-09T21:55:35Z When Barry Jenkins has been asked how he recreated the look of the shantytown quality of the projects at that time, he suggests it wasn’t hard – it still looks exactly the same now. Moonlight’s writer Tarell Alvin McCraney: 'the story needed to be out there' 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Injustice is made apparent as the authorities are shown demolishing shantytowns, seemingly at random. Lav Diaz and Pedro Costa: Slow Cinema on the Cutting Edge 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z By ’88, the park had become a shantytown, which was not popular with local residents. The East Village, Home of Punks and Poets: Here’s a Tour 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z When Biehn first visited the property, it was a shantytown inhabited by 14 families, all of whom needed to be relocated. T Magazine: Pasha Fierce 2011-10-10T15:40:42Z Given the demographics of theater audiences — even for a genre-bending and gender-obliterating performer like Mr. Mac — much squeezing is necessary; the suburbs are more crowded than the shantytowns. Taylor Mac’s ‘A 24-Decade History of Popular Music,’ 1930s-1950s 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z These days, the term is more fitting for a largely unregulated boomtown like China’s Chongqing, its population exploding past 32 million, with “an urban jungle of hundreds of skyscrapers” looming over squalid shantytowns. Venice is just the beginning — the West is sinking into a sea of commerce 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z His directorial stunts are epitomized by a choreographed sequence that destroys an entire hillside shantytown. ‘Police Story,’ When Jackie Chan Swung Into Action 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z That novel revolved around Darling, a 10-year-old living in a shantytown called Paradise whose adventures reveal the crushing poverty and injustice pervasive in urban peripheries. NoViolet Bulawayo Believes Freedom Begins With Imagination 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z A triumph of low-budget production design, the movie opens in a North African shantytown, impeccably realized in a vacant East Village lot. ‘Force of Circumstance’: Casablanca in the East Village 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z There's no lovely architecture there, just a megacity of 16 million people and counting, with a hub of skyscrapers surrounded by polluted shantytowns. Greatest Cities of the World and Welcome to Lagos 2010-04-30T07:00:00Z Speakers play recorded testimonies from campaigners, social workers, a bus driver and a policeman, who discuss Marseille’s shantytowns, slums and displaced populations, such as the hundreds still waiting to be rehoused after the 2018 collapse. At the Manifesta Biennial, a French City’s Tough Realities Go on Show 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Until recently, Niamey was a laid-back place sprawling along the banks of the Niger, with plenty of greenery to break the monotony of shantytowns and dusty suburbs. Bombino: Niger's Tuareg guitar hero 2013-04-07T16:00:01Z The first is to include, with almost every analysis of a discrete slum or shantytown, a genial profile of one of its residents. Books of The Times: Want a New Life? Wait Here 2011-03-17T14:45:49Z The line of shops resemble a shantytown, with books packed among the dusty plastic sheeting and rusty metal frames. Marrakech's historic booksellers once again face eviction 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z There were several other shantytowns on the evening’s itinerary. The Would-Be Prince of Port-au-Prince 2011-07-17T04:45:24Z Naturalism meets melodrama in this harrowing, hectic tale of a lost boy’s adventures in the slums and shantytowns of Beirut. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z It looks like a third-world shantytown, a refugee camp, a dystopia inhabited by the damaged and desperate. Dumping ground and refuge: For those who know how to navigate L.A.’s Skid Row, it can provide community — but crackdowns have made life even harder 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z A Cubistic painting of an Atlanta shantytown from 1933-34 is one result; a more bucolic but nonetheless charged landscape indebted to van Gogh is another. Art Review: Hale Woodruff’s Talladega Murals, in ‘Rising Up,’ at N.Y.U. 2013-08-15T21:36:28Z We Need New Names About the book: The story of Darling, a young girl who leaves her Zimbabwe shantytown for a new life in the United States. Man Booker Prize 2013: At a glance 2013-09-11T11:13:45Z Most are elderly but maintain a community spirit from decades ago, when the South Korean capital was home to many shantytowns like this. Ants on the March
: Redeveloping Old Seoul 2011-08-04T14:05:00Z A 2014-16 sculpture — modeled on Jan van Eyck’s 15th-century Ghent altarpiece — by the contemporary Argentine collective Mondongo, for example, portrays Buenos Aires’ glittering downtown within view of the shantytown known as Villa 31. Argentine slums and a Unabomber cabin: How 'Home' at LACMA rethinks ideas about Latin American art 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z We descend from our seats almost as soon as the show has begun to huddle onstage together as if in a Depression-era shantytown. Taylor Mac’s ‘A 24-Decade History of Popular Music,’ 1930s-1950s 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z The cars began to gather after dark in Petare, one of the biggest shantytowns in Latin America. Customized cars, SUVs take parties on the road in Venezuela 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Instead of Death Valley, their home is Railway, an abandoned shantytown on the outskirts of Marseilles, South Africa. Review: ‘Five Fingers for Marseilles’ Takes the Western to South Africa 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The hospital is in the large shantytown of Cite Soleil, where there have been reports of unrest in recent days following the death of a gang leader. Haiti: Gang violence prompts hospital evacuation 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z But for many street vendors and those crammed into New Delhi’s shantytowns, the makeover has meant displacement and loss of livelihood, raising questions about the government’s policies on dealing with poverty. New Delhi got a makeover for the G20 summit. The city’s poor say they were simply erased 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z Building collapses are common in Egypt, where shoddy construction and a lack of maintenance are widespread in shantytowns, poor city neighborhoods and rural areas. A 5-story apartment building collapses in Cairo and kills at least 9 people 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Egyptian authorities have in recent years launched a crackdown on illegal construction and, in many places, moved residents from unsafe houses and shantytowns to newly built cities. At Least Three Die in Egyptian Building Collapse 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z It was also not immediately known what caused the collapse but such incidents are common in Egypt, where shoddy construction is widespread in shantytowns, poor city neighborhoods and rural areas. At least 3 dead in building collapse in Egypt’s coastal city of Alexandria, officials say 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Slums and shantytowns are often targeted in rampant demolitions across Africa’s most populous country, and especially in Abuja. They fled the war in Nigeria’s northeast. Then bulldozers levelled their homes at a camp in Abuja 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Dozens of shantytowns were raised to the ground, with many residents getting eviction notices only a short while before the demolitions got underway. New Delhi got a makeover for the G20 summit. The city’s poor say they were simply erased 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z They have also criticized the quality of living conditions in tiny home villages, with a spokesperson once calling them – and later apologizing – “shantytowns.” Seattle’s tiny homes get a big upgrade 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Such incidents are common in Egypt, where shoddy construction is widespread in shantytowns, poor city neighborhoods and rural areas. At Least Three Die in Egyptian Building Collapse 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Egyptian authorities have in recent years launched a crackdown on illegal construction and in many places, moved residents from unsafe houses and shantytowns to newly built cities. At least 3 dead in building collapse in Egypt’s coastal city of Alexandria, officials say 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z But as the Kurdish refugee from Iran quickly realized, dreams and despair were intertwined in the shantytown known as the Jungle. In ‘The Jungle,’ refugees act in show inspired by their journeys 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Indian authorities have been criticized in the past for clearing away homeless encampments and shantytowns ahead of major events. New Delhi got a makeover for the G20 summit. The city’s poor say they were simply erased 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z At the Pyramid Hotel, an 11th-floor restaurant offers panoramic views of the Nile and an adjoining shantytown. The World’s Newest Country Is Broken and Forgotten. Enter Pope Francis. 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Years ago a consultant called them “shacks”; last year one agency derided them as “shantytowns.” The story of Seattle’s homeless shelters that are without a home 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z The town of Bria tails off into a refugee camp that is a seething shantytown of one-room structures spread over the hills. Putin Wants Fealty, and He’s Found It in Africa 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z The stories from the shantytowns are already poignant in their desperation. Dominique Lapierre, author of best-selling historical narratives, dies at 91 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z From the plane you can see this sprawling shantytown. Cholera and Crime 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z In a burst of Coleridgian inspiration, she writes: “The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us.” Review | In Kevin Wilson’s ‘Now Is Not the Time to Panic,’ two kids cause panic 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Her charity has, among other things, dug boreholes and installed water taps in the shantytown, which lacks reliable running water. Small victories: South Africa is struggling to improve kids’ health decades after apartheid’s demise 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Trash collection ceased entirely in parts of Port-au-Prince, the capital, turning streets of urban shantytowns into rivers of squalid mud and creating mountains of garbage next to food markets. Gang Warfare Cripples Haiti’s Fight Against Cholera 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z Authorities warned that airports and seaports will close as the storm nears and not reopen until Thursday, and they urged people in shantytowns to seek secure shelter. Nicole strengthens to tropical storm en route to Bahamas 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Dozens of ruins of huacas remain nestled among skyscrapers, middle-class neighborhoods and shantytowns. ‘3,000 Years of History Are Literally Just Beneath Our Feet’ 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z A raid of a Rio de Janeiro shantytown that killed at least 18 people has ignited debate over how to handle crime ahead of a presidential election. ‘The police come here to hunt’: Brazilian cops kill at 9 times the rate of U.S. law enforcement 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z The best were dogged but dim, and got desperate enough to start harassing people in shantytowns and Hoovervilles, trying to bully them into confessions. Review | The grisly Cleveland murders that unraveled Eliot Ness 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z One of the easiest ways to prevent widespread death is to set up outposts to deliver oral rehydration inside the shantytowns where the most vulnerable live, experts said. Gang Warfare Cripples Haiti’s Fight Against Cholera 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z After an authority staff member called tiny house villages “shantytowns,” prompting public backlash, Dones apologized to Seattle City Council members, writing that tiny house villages “serve an important role in the shelter system.” Will public ‘dust-ups’ threaten Regional Homelessness Authority’s mission? 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z He found work at a sawmill, and he sold cull lumber and firewood to people in Hong Kong’s shantytowns. ‘Wood Is Life’: A Hong Kong Sawmill’s Last Days 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z “Hoovervilles,” or shantytowns, were a negative reminder of his role in the nation’s financial crisis. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Before he lived in this small encampment of makeshift dwellings along active railroad tracks, Camargo spent about nine months in a shantytown under a stretch of the 105. Homeless people wait as Los Angeles lets thousands of federal housing vouchers go unused 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Beijing is also considering a national policy for issuance of special bonds for shantytown redevelopment, the report said. China plans to set up real estate fund worth up to $44 bln - REDD 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Unregulated shantytowns persist around the nation — made up of tents, tiny houses, RVs or ramshackle shelters. ‘Bidenvilles’ popping up across America 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z Early Sunday morning in Soweto, in Johannesburg, a group of men armed with rifles and automatic handguns stormed a busy tavern in the Nomzamo shantytown, in the city’s Orlando East neighborhood, said Col. At Least 21 Dead After 3 Tavern Shootings in South Africa 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z Nor was he known for political sensitivity: He built a multimillion-dollar mansion on the fringe of a Luanda shantytown while millions of Angolans were fighting starvation during the civil war. Former Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos dies at 79 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Police concluded at the time that the bloodbath in a riverside shantytown in Caloocan city in the Manila metropolis was set off by a drug gang war. Drug killings leave agony, savage facet to Duterte’s legacy 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z It is the fourth major flooding event in five months, underlining a lack of urban planning in low-income neighborhoods throughout much of Brazil, where shantytowns are often built on hillsides prone to collapse. Death toll in Brazilian floods rises to 106, 10 still missing 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z It was the fourth major flooding event in five months, underlining a lack of urban planning in low-income neighborhoods throughout much of Brazil, where shantytowns are often built on hillsides prone to collapse. Death toll in Brazilian floods rises to 57, thousands displaced 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z A South African program, led by national and municipal departments of health in partnership with Doctors without Borders, protects members of this vulnerable group living in the shantytowns of Khayelitsha and Eshowe. Tuberculosis Is the Oldest Pandemic, and Poverty Makes It Continue 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z But in the shantytowns of Brazil’s major cities, where poverty frames daily life, people are focused on the exploding cost of liquefied petroleum gas, the cooking fuel used in 96 percent of homes. Poor Countries Face a Mounting Catastrophe Fueled by Inflation and Debt 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z I won’t revisit the multiple rounds of finger-pointing that ensued — other than that it culminated in the spokesperson for the authority calling the network of tiny home villages, which were painstakingly built by volunteers, “shantytowns.“ After an apology — and a surprise gift — Seattle’s empty homeless shelter will open after all | Danny Westneat 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z People have constructed shantytowns all over the world and historically have started on squatted land with no funds for utilities or maintenance. Homelessness: Why disparage tiny-house villages? 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z “I don’t think scaling up shantytowns is the answer.” More fallout from Seattle’s stumbles on homelessness 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The purchases were fuelled by government compensation in the hundreds of thousands of yuan per household under a nationwide programme to demolish aging buildings and redevelop shantytowns. Analysis-Wealth shock: property bust in small Chinese cities rattles households 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z In Barrio Padre Mugica, a shantytown in Buenos Aires, his Freedom Advances coalition drew as much as 17.2 percent support last year. He raffles off his salary. He could be Argentina’s next president. 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z The shantytowns are an embarrassment to both Seattle and the liberal project. ‘Magnets for crime’: How one Seattle politician’s views shifted on homeless encampments 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z That said, some shantytowns have evolved to more prosperous housing, sometimes on their own, sometimes with support of the government and/or community. Homelessness: Why disparage tiny-house villages? 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Reports suggest the drugs were bought in the same shantytown, and nine arrests have been made. Argentina drugs: Adulterated cocaine kills 12 in Buenos Aires 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Afghans eager to escape persecution, poverty or persistent conflict have taken flight to Iran for decades; shantytowns full of refugees line the outskirts of Tehran and cities such as Mashhad and Isfahan. Amid a crackdown, Afghan refugees in Iran fear the 'unthinkable': Being sent back 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z When she heard the explosion, she rushed down from the hillside shantytown in panic. New Haiti disaster: Fireball from toppled tanker kills 75 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z The special section painted a stark picture of that reality, from the infernal traffic jams to the cramped room-shares to the shantytowns devoid of running water or electricity. Opinion | Modern contraception is the answer to the overpopulation problem 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z And vast tracts of land that were undeveloped 60 years ago are now covered with shantytowns, home to the city’s majority who live in grinding poverty. Africa’s rising cities The tent city outside the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center campus just off the 405 Freeway resembled more a military encampment than a makeshift shantytown thrown up by vagrants. Veteran homelessness a focus as nation honors those who served 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Fifteen thousand people, at least, creating a shantytown under the international bridge, is a visual finally allowing Americans to grasp what the Biden administration has both encouraged and deliberately facilitated through rhetoric and policy. Biden vacations, while the world is on fire 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Led by misinformation and rumors that the Biden administration would welcome them, large crowds of migrants began arriving at a site that very quickly grew into a shantytown under the international bridge. ‘Not the Same’: Residents of Del Rio Feel the Impact of the Migrant Crisis 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Bruno Lozano, the city’s mayor, described on Thursday squalid conditions under the bridge that more so resembled a shantytown, with little access to clean water and food and just a few portable toilets. Thousands of Migrants Huddle in Squalid Conditions Under Texas Bridge 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Homeless people built shantytowns called Hoovervilles on unused land, the name intended to mock then-President Hoover’s handling of the economic crisis. Column: Is homelessness a property rights issue or a human rights issue? We have to decide 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z But gang control of Cota 905 and the surrounding shantytowns, which lie just two miles from the presidential palace, is evidence that his government is losing its grip even on the center of the capital. Bouncy Castles and Grenades: Gangs Erode Maduro’s Grip on Caracas 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z The unemployed and the hungry throughout the country squatted in vacant homes and on vacant land forming shantytowns that were known as Hoovervilles. Don't be fooled by Joe Biden: None of his big proposals will become reality — and he knows it 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Along the coast, some people sleep in tent shantytowns in the sand dunes and bushes, while others — many of them in stable employment — move between short-term accommodations, friends’ couches and their cars. Netflix Chronicles Byron Bay’s ‘Hot Instagrammers.’ Will Paradise Survive? 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z The injunction pertains only to skid row and a buffer zone around it, where an estimated 2,000 people live in sidewalk tents and shantytowns. Skid row is skeptical of judge's order to sweep homeless people into shelters 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z When the U.S. entered World War II, the shantytowns were destroyed, and the city’s homeless multiplied. Column: Is homelessness a property rights issue or a human rights issue? We have to decide 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z The police operations resulted in thousands of extrajudicial killings, according to the United Nations, earning Mr. Maduro charges of committing crimes against humanity and the hatred of many shantytown residents. Bouncy Castles and Grenades: Gangs Erode Maduro’s Grip on Caracas 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z To prepare for the demonstration, thousands of impoverished and dispossessed citizens of the world's richest nation constructed a shantytown in the capital, calling it "Resurrection City." The best way to honor Martin Luther King Jr.'s memory is to advance the work of economic justice 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z Built for fewer than 650 people, the camp and spillover shantytown area currently houses more than 3,100 people. EU commissioner visits refugee facilities on Greek islands 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z As the affordable housing shortage worsened following the Great Recession, encampments spread throughout metropolitan L.A., without visible improvement to the shantytowns and tent cities spread over block after block on skid row. Skid row is skeptical of judge's order to sweep homeless people into shelters 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Building collapses are not uncommon in Egypt, where shoddy construction is widespread in shantytowns, poor neighborhoods and rural areas. Infant found alive after Egypt building collapse 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z Anti-government protests are banned in the shantytown, and gang members summon residents to the polling stations on elections, said the residents. Bouncy Castles and Grenades: Gangs Erode Maduro’s Grip on Caracas 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z Building collapses are not uncommon in Egypt, where shoddy construction is widespread in shantytowns, poor city neighborhoods and rural areas. Building collapses in Egypt’s capital killing 5, injuring 24 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z The shantytown is run by the 5 Seconds gang. Disgruntled Haiti police raid stations, free jailed comrades 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Joseph ruled Village de Dieu, or Village of God, a shantytown in Port-au-Prince, and other communities, including some in Artibonite, which is Haiti’s largest department. Prison director and gang leader among 25 killed in Haitian jailbreak 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Joseph ruled Village de Dieu, or Village of God, a shantytown in downtown Port-au-Prince, and other communities, including some in Artibonite, which is Haiti’s largest department. Officials: 400 escape, 25 dead after Haiti prison breakout 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Nowhere is his weakening grip on territory more evident than in Cota 905, a shantytown that clings to a steep mountainside overlooking the gilded halls from which Mr. Maduro addresses the nation. Bouncy Castles and Grenades: Gangs Erode Maduro’s Grip on Caracas 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z Joseph ruled Village de Dieu, or Village of God, a shantytown in downtown Port-au-Prince, and other communities, including some in Artibonite, which is Haiti’s largest department and located north of the capital. Police: Infamous gang leader killed after prison breakout 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z It is not uncommon for buildings to collapse in Egypt, where shoddy construction is widespread in shantytowns, poor city neighborhoods and rural areas. Egypt officials: Cairo building partially collapses; 3 dead 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Vatican News said Francis was responding to a group of women from the shantytowns of Buenos Aires where he used to minister who have organized in recent years to oppose efforts to decriminalize abortion. Pope backs Argentine women’s opposition to abortion bill 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Now there are customers in hillside shantytowns and gleaming apartment buildings, factories and Parliament. ‘Yogurt Ladies’ of South Korea Deliver More Than Dairy 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z Gang members with automatic weapons openly patrol the shantytown’s streets and those of the surrounding communities, and guard entry points from rooftop watchtowers. Bouncy Castles and Grenades: Gangs Erode Maduro’s Grip on Caracas 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z By the time he was voted out, millions of people made homeless by the economic collapse were living in shantytowns dubbed “Hoovervilles.” Trump just joined history’s club of one-term presidents, rejected by the Americans they led 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z His government long faced allegations of looting the country’s wealth while leaving the majority of its population living in shantytowns. Dubai: Foul play not suspected in dos Santos’ husband death 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z The man, identified as Ahmet Citim, was rescued from one of 20 residential buildings destroyed in Izmir’s Bayrakli district, a former shantytown where older buildings vulnerable to earthquakes were being replaced by newer construction projects. Man rescued from rubble as Turkey quake death toll hits 62 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Whitman, then editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, campaigned for a space that would accommodate everyone, especially the working-class immigrants crowded into shantytowns along nearby Myrtle Avenue. We need a new Walt Whitman to imagine a virtual public space | John Naughton 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z In a hillside shantytown of Lima, Peru, Delia Huamani’s school day starts not with the bustle of classmates, but with the flicker of a television. Struggling With Lockdown, Schools Relearn Value of Older Tech: TV 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z In 1968, “Resurrection City,” a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People’s March on Washington, D.C., was closed down by authorities. Today in History 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Kanase would watch as health workers scrambled to stem the outbreak, suiting up to disinfect the squalid lanes and flying drones over the shantytown to surveil people’s movements. Amid virus, those in India’s largest slum help one another 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z "Our entire living room looks like an amusement park. We've got a ball pit, my husband made this shantytown out of boxes we've gotten from Amazon, which, of course, we wiped down," Kramer said. Jana Kramer says homeschooling amid coronavirus crisis can be 'frustrating': 'It's a lot of deep breaths' 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z The resulting shantytowns grew to each contain hundreds of settlers, many of whom also began to hunt for bushmeat. How Sustainable Development Ravaged the Congo Basin 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z In crowded urban shantytowns, gang violence, police repression and political feuds leave bodies in the streets. Perspective | Haiti has a tragic history of disasters. Will covid-19 be next? 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z This was soon after the Great Depression, when many American families were forced to live in shantytowns and to wait through breadlines just for basic sustenance. Editorial Roundup: Tennessee 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Adequate sanitation is lacking in many of these cities, particularly in the densely populated shantytowns that often surround them. Avenger planet: Is the COVID-19 pandemic Mother Nature’s response to human transgression? 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z “I was very young,” she said of that time, when some 70,000 people lived in shantytowns in Rome. Rome’s Homeless Don’t Have the Luxury of Staying Home 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z They moved mostly into shantytowns with poorly constructed homes and illegal electricity prone to fires. Haitian immigrants struggle after Hurricane Dorian 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z In the fetid urban shantytown of La Saline, I met a tailor whose only possession was an old sewing machine. Perspective | Haiti has a tragic history of disasters. Will covid-19 be next? 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z The region’s apex, and the source of some of the gold, is a shantytown of about 50,000 people located 16,700 feet above sea-level. Special Report - Sleeping Beauty: How suspect gold reached top brands 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Some time after Cookie gives him food and shelter and helps him on his way, the two men will reunite at a shantytown where King-Lu has a small hut. Review: Kelly Reichardt's 'First Cow' is a deeply moving tale of friendship in the Old West 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z She visited one community that is building one-room shacks with metal roofs that she said look like something from a shantytown. Months After Puerto Rico Earthquakes, Thousands Are Still Living Outside 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z But she also tells of tens of thousands living in shantytowns built of tarps and tin. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z A French charity moved the Thomases to Canaan, a swiftly growing shantytown on empty land two hours from their destroyed home in the capital. A decade after Haitian earthquake, a young victim struggles 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Last year, authorities reported rescuing at least 68 trafficking victims from the shantytown’s nightclubs. Special Report - Sleeping Beauty: How suspect gold reached top brands 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Instead, “The Kingmaker” chills the soul by presenting shantytown residents and school kids who extol the Marcos regime and even endorse its eight-year period of martial law. Review | A soul-chilling portrait of Imelda Marcos, in the documentary ‘The Kingmaker’ 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Squatters, homeless after a pre-earthquake housing crisis, have used high- and low-tech materials—tarps, plywood, aircraft cable—to turn its decks and towers into a cool suspended shantytown. How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z They don’t typically ride the rails, erect shantytowns or wander the post-apocalyptic wasteland like Road Warriors. Analysis | If that was a retail apocalypse, then where are the refugees? 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z It was an obvious allusion to Haitians, thousands of whom have lived for years in the Bahamas in informal shantytowns, several of which were flattened by Dorian. As Protests Again Sweep Haiti, How Can the Nation Move Forward? 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Last June, a Reuters reporter in La Rinconada watched as hundreds of police officers in riot gear swept through the shantytown. Special Report - Sleeping Beauty: How suspect gold reached top brands 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z A movement birthed in the shantytowns of Port-au-Prince has now swelled to broad swaths of the populace in all 10 of Haiti’s geographical departments. Pro-democracy movement in Haiti swells despite lethal police violence 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Dorian’s official death toll is 61, but officials believe that many bodies remain among the rubble in Abaco’s shantytowns. Haitian Migrants, Devastated by Dorian, Face Deportation From Bahamas 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The tax’s supporters pushed back, accusing Bezos and others of being “O.K. with the city having shantytowns and favelas,” but within a month the city council surrendered, and repealed the tax measure. Is Amazon Unstoppable? 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z A shantytown tomboy’s straight-arrow sweetheart discovers how her mother makes a living. Movies on TV for Oct. 6-12: 'Throne of Blood' and more 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z But it will be months if not years before there is any level of normalcy, particularly in Marsh Harbour on Great Abaco, where shantytowns were flattened and countless buildings reduced to rubble. How Justin Leonard and Brad Faxon put together the Bahamas Strong Pro-Am to assist Hurricane Dorian victims - Golf Digest 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z In the shadow of Maracaibo’s half-empty high-rises rests the shantytown of Miracle Heights North. In Venezuela’s oil capital, life is a struggle. So is death. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Contracts were awarded to several companies for the cleanup and days later, images emerged of one shantytown being bulldozed. Haitian Migrants, Devastated by Dorian, Face Deportation From Bahamas 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Days later, Malawians living among South Africans in a shantytown in the coastal city of Durban were attacked and displaced. What’s driving anti-immigrant violence in South Africa? It’s not just economic anxiety. - The Washington Post 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z But Hurricane Dorian’s swirling, pounding floodwaters receded early last week to reveal his body sprawled amid the wreckage of a vast shantytown here in Marsh Harbour, the capital of the Abaco Islands. Corpses Strewn, People Missing a Week After Dorian Hit the Bahamas 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Hundreds of people, many from destroyed shantytowns that had been mostly populated by Haitian immigrants, fled to the main government complex in Marsh Harbour and took up residence in its damaged offices. On Dorian-Battered Island, What’s Left? Virtually Nothing 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z It is unclear how many were able to evacuate particularly vulnerable areas, such as the Mudd, a low-lying shantytown in Marsh Harbour that authorities said was decimated. Thousands take to social media to find relatives, friends in the Bahamas 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Some dazed survivors of Hurricane Dorian made their way back to a shantytown where they used to live, hoping to gather up some of their soggy belongings. Aid effort picks up momentum as some Bahamians seek way out 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Armed police and paramilitary forces remain on patrol in the shantytowns around Johannesburg and other cities after a week of violence against migrants drawn from countries across Africa. South Africans, Nigerians set up cycle of revenge over foreign workers, businesses 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z In the Abacos, among the hardest hit neighborhoods were shantytowns mostly populated by poor Haitian immigrants, many of them undocumented. Corpses Strewn, People Missing a Week After Dorian Hit the Bahamas 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z In Marsh Harbour the threat was pronounced, especially in the predominantly Haitian shantytown known as the Mudd, which officials have said was demolished by the storm. Bahamas Stunned as Hurricane Recedes: ‘It’s Like a Bomb Went Off’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z “The Mud, as we know, has been completely destroyed or decimated,” he added, referring to a shantytown known as the Mud and the Peas. Hurricane Dorian destruction set to cost Bahamas 'up to billions' 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z The area, whose population includes Haitian migrants living in shantytowns like the Mudd and Pigeon Peas, is especially vulnerable. ‘A Disastrous Outcome’: In Bahamas, Hurricane Cripples Rescue Efforts 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z But they also find unexpected kindness from a family in a shantytown, ghettoized Jews, a boardinghouse owner who offers room and food to anyone, and a faith healer who offers them a temporary home. ‘This Tender Land’ is an affecting story about growing up 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Officials said the Mudd, a shantytown of Haitian immigrants, was severely damaged. ‘Pray for us’: Dorian snapping trees, tearing off roofs in the Bahamas 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z “It’s tough for people in the shantytowns,” he said, because their plywood houses are not built to withstand hurricane-force winds and are vulnerable to flooding. Hurricane Dorian Batters Bahamas as ‘Catastrophic’ Storm 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Emet cleaned pools in a government complex in the Philippines, earning $50 a month, barely enough to scrape by with his family in their Manila shantytown. Review | For many immigrants, family separation happens long before the border 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z In a country where contraceptives are in short supply, word in the shantytown on the outskirts of Venezuela’s capital spreads quickly. Venezuela crisis pushes women into ‘forced motherhood’ 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z In Rio de Janeiro, residents of a shantytown demonstrated after a student waiting for a bus to school was killed by a stray bullet from a nearby shooting. AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Latin America, Caribbean 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z In Rio de Janeiro, residents of a shantytown demonstrated after a student waiting for a bus to school was killed by a stray bullet from a nearby shooting. AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Latin America, Caribbean 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z I’ve followed Lara’s family for 32 years, as they completed a remarkable rise from a Manila shantytown to the Houston suburbs. What Makes an American? 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Ten improvised shantytowns have sprung up, stretching already limited supplies of water and electricity. As Venezuela’s crisis deepens, the most vulnerable are joining the exodus 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z It is the largest of dozens of shantytowns in this jungle metropolis, population 2 million. The jungle metropolis: how sprawling Manaus is eating into the Amazon 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z They argue the shantytowns trap homeless people in dangerous conditions that keep them from seeking shelter and services. He took on same-sex marriage. Now he wants to restore the right to clear homeless camps 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z In 2005, floods killed more than 500 people in Mumbai, the majority in shantytown slums home to more than half the city’s population. Heavy rains in India's Mumbai cause wall collapse that kills 13 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z And yet on Wednesday morning, Mpinga slipped into a jacket and gloves and headed across the shantytown toward the polling booth, set up under a tent on its fringes. ‘The promises are empty’: South Africans vote, but the nation’s young people abstain in droves 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z After squatting in a nearby shantytown, where they ate irregularly and had their cellphone stolen, they’ll get a clean tent, a measure of safety and three meals a day. As Venezuela’s crisis deepens, the most vulnerable are joining the exodus 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Before leaving La Vega, community leader Jairo Perez, took me to a vantage point high above the shantytown, pointing out each of the smaller neighbourhoods below by name. Trapped in the middle of Venezuela's political battle 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z Trash picking is a profession more often associated with shantytowns and favelas than a city at the doorstep of Silicon Valley. In San Francisco, Making a Living From Your Billionaire Neighbor’s Trash 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Haitian farmers couldn’t compete with the cheap import, and many fled the countryside to live in sewerless shantytowns ringing Port-au-Prince. - The Washington Post 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z “There hasn’t been power in my house since Thursday afternoon. We can’t even buy food because the ATMs aren’t working,” said Córdoba, from Petare, a sprawling shantytown in the city’s east. 'A city of shadows': fear as Venezuela's crippling blackout enters day four 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z An estimated 4,200 people live in the 50-block district, many in tents and shantytowns. Los Angeles to settle skid row homeless lawsuit 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Skid row is home to 4,200 homeless people, half of whom live in tents and shantytowns along the sidewalks and alleys of the 50-block district. L.A. opts to settle pivotal case on property rights of skid row's homeless residents 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Two months later another informal shantytown, Borreano, in Basilicata, which also housed hundreds of African workers, was demolished. Salvini crackdown: bulldozers demolish Italian camp housing 1,500 refugees 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z “If you look at our shantytowns, there’s an ingenuousness in the way people make do with cardboard, with scraps of metal. There’s color to it. There’s life.” - The Washington Post 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Skid row is home to 4,200 homeless people, half of whom live in tents and ragged shantytowns along the sidewalks and alleys of the 50-block district. L.A. could settle controversial case over seizing homeless people's property 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Still, supporters who receive government subsidies in shantytowns continue to back the man who took over for the late Hugo Chavez. The Latest: Maduro sworn in for 2nd term in Venezuela 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Caracas’s crash has left no community unscarred, from its vast redbrick shantytowns to leafy middle- and upper-class areas such as La Florida. The fallen metropolis: the collapse of Caracas, the jewel of Latin America 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Destitute peasants fled to urban centers, where they settled in shantytowns like Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, a slum 10 miles east of Mexico City that eventually held more than a million people. After ‘Gravity,’ Alfonso Cuarón Had His Pick of Directing Blockbusters. Instead, He Went Home to Make ‘Roma.’ 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z In a shantytown outside Lima, Peru, residents teamed up with the University of Washington to build a school garden that is also open to the public. Parks help cities — but only if people use them 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z World leaders, should they choose to tour the capital, will see a low-slung, spread of shantytowns, marketplaces and a handful of upscale buildings ringed by scrubby hills along the Coral Sea. Global Leaders Converge on Pacific Island—Just Don’t Ask Them to Stay There 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z He grew up in a shantytown on the southern edge of Buenos Aires, where he was spotted by a soccer scout at the age of 8. Dorados de Sinalos have given purpose to Diego Maradona's upstream fight to sobriety - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Despite all this, new camps continue to spring up, sometimes on the ruins of the demolished shantytowns. Shattered dreams: life in Italy's migrant camps - a photo essay 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z In the early nineteen-thirties, when the authorities allowed thousands of banks to collapse, the unemployment rate soared to almost twenty-five per cent, and soup kitchens and shantytowns sprang up across the country. The Real Cost of the 2008 Financial Crisis 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z In order to shape the redevelopment project to which the neighborhood belongs, the district cobbled together land from the greenbelt, the markets and former shantytowns. Has This Neighborhood in Seoul Figured Out the Secret to Slow Living? 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z More than 100 people died in a rockslide that crashed into a shantytown just outside Cairo, Egypt. Today in History 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The city struggled to accommodate the newcomers, and hundreds of thousands ended up living in sprawling, overcrowded shantytowns packed with squatter huts. Public Housing for Some, Instagram Selfie Backdrop for Others 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The shantytowns are inundated with mud when it rains, and offer only metal sheets as protection against the sun. Migrants Walk Off Italy’s Tomato Fields, and Into Its Immigration Debate 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z City Hall says creating the beach cleaned up the area, once known for illegal shantytowns. Halfway through summer, Rome get promised riverside beach 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z As Indians get richer more will be able to afford air-conditioning; even those in shantytowns can paint their corrugated-iron roofs white to reflect sunlight. Heat is causing problems across the world 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z He ventured underground to photograph workers in the country’s gold mines and entered black shantytowns and the segregated white churches and towns of Afrikaner hard-liners. David Goldblatt, penetrating photographer of South Africa under apartheid, dies at 87 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Most, however, are unemployed, living in ravaged neighborhoods or shantytowns with little to do. Basra was once a jewel of a city. Now it's a symbol what's wrong in Iraq 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Thousands of poor people set up a shantytown they called “Resurrection City” on the Washington National Mall but became demoralized by racial tensions, a lack of leadership, and eventually, the assassination of Kennedy. AP Explains: Poor People’s Campaign 1968 vs. 2018 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Among them, she listed Iran’s “intensified systematic inequality in social classes, the decline of public trust and the increase in environmental crisis and shantytowns.” Report: Students harshly criticize Iran to supreme leader 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Although his most ardent supporters are Shias in the shantytowns of Baghdad and Basra, he won by broadening his appeal. Muqtada al-Sadr, a cleric who once tormented America, seems to have won Iraq’s election 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z A few days after 50,000 people assembled in Washington on June 19 for a mass rally for jobs, peace and freedom, thousands of police officers evacuated residents of the shantytown. Echoing MLK in 1968, activists kick off new Poor People's Campaign 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z He also partnered with the American professional skateboarder Tony Hawk to empower children through sports, and worked with the United Nations in Liberian shantytowns after the 2014 outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. Noted Humanitarian Charged With Child Rape in Nepal, Stunning a Village 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z She was known for social work in poor and marginalized shantytowns, or favelas, and for her outspokenness against police violence. Rio police recreate murder scene of black councilwoman 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z In Cazenga, a shantytown in the capital, residents recently marched down fetid, flooded streets in protest against their living conditions. Angola’s new president, João Lourenço, has made an encouraging start 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The Las Llamas site is located in a shantytown, and has been fenced off to stop illegal developers from building homes on it. Archaeologists find ancient mass child sacrifice in Peru 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Poignantly, the glittering new buildings were taking shape next to the then largest immigrant shantytown in France. A French revolution that pushed immigrants to the margins | Nabila Ramdani 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z The majority of Gaza’s 1.8 million residents are descendants of refugees who lost their land when Israel was established in 1948, and many live in cramped refugee camps that now resemble shantytowns. Thousands of Palestinians demonstrate at Gaza border for a third week, hundreds injured 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z They are attempting to make an example of Vila Kennedy, a violent shantytown of brick houses radiating out from a plaza with a small reproduction of the Statue of Liberty. Stop and search? This poor community in Rio says yes, please. 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z The poor are crammed into sprawling shantytowns, where communicable diseases fester and fires sporadically raze homes. The dysfunctional megacity: why Dhaka is bursting at the sewers 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z She was an expert on police violence and on Saturday accused officers of being overly aggressive in searching residents of gang-controlled shantytowns. Marielle Franco, councillor and police critic, shot dead in targeted killing in Rio 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Franco was an expert on police violence and on Saturday accused officers of being overly aggressive in searching residents of gang-controlled shantytowns. City council member, driver shot to death in downtown Rio 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z In the debate over where to place the great park, however, uptown landowners and newspapers painted the village as a shantytown at risk of becoming the next Five Points, occasionally describing it with racial slurs. Uncovering the Ruins of an Early Black Settlement in New York 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Here we are in 2018, hopes dashed, and this could be the year Garcetti’s presidential pipe dream ruptures under a shantytown in the homeless capital of the United States. LA homeless crisis grows despite political promises, speeches — and millions of dollars 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z The illegal shantytown emerged on a public wetland after 1989’s Hurricane Hugo left thousands homeless. Special Report: In Puerto Rico, a housing crisis U.S. storm aid won't 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z They now live in crowded and unhygienic shantytown camps just over the border. Even for Rohingya refugees who move on from Bangladesh, life is grim 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Rocinha, Rio’s largest favela — or hillside shantytown — was once ascendant, a symbol of rising fortunes in a nation that finally seemed on the fast track to greatness. This trendy Rio favela appeared in a Hollywood kids movie. Now the bullets are back. 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Faith-based and community volunteers continue to push the limits of public policy, launching sanctioned and unsanctioned shantytowns for the homeless from Eugene, Oregon, to Reno, Nevada., and — perhaps coming soon — Akron. Advocates seek tiny home solution for Akron’s homeless 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z This quickly morphed into mass evictions, starting in the shantytown. In Beijing, the rich and poor are shocked 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The illegal shantytown emerged on a public wetland after 1989’s Hurricane Hugo left thousands homeless. Special Report: In Puerto Rico, a housing crisis U.S. storm aid won't 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Behind the shantytown fabric of tents, mud and abject squalor, there were the beginnings of a self-organised urban ecosystem. The haves and have-nots: four cities in crisis 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Unemployment didn't get up to 25 percent, shantytowns didn't become a regular part of the urban landscape, and bread lines weren't people's primary source of nutrition. Perspective | Worse than the 1930s: America’s Great Recession and not so great recovery 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Many women who seek her out live in villas miserias, urban shantytowns where access to public hospitals is limited. Argentina bans abortion in most cases. So why is its abortion rate far higher than that of the U.S.? 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Around 1,000 soldiers with armored vehicles and helicopters were deployed last month in Rocinha, one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest shantytowns, to back police forces in raids on violent drug gangs. Brazilian Congress Backs Bill for Troops to Be Tried by Military Court in Civilian Deaths 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z One of them was Ira Lowenthal, an American anthropologist and art collector we interviewed for hours on his terrace overlooking Jalousie, a shantytown in the heart of Port-au-Prince. Kim Wall was born to tell stories. I miss my friend's light, and her love 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Homeless camps: The city controller recommended that L.A. open emergency campgrounds and shelters to curtail the shantytowns that have plagued neighborhoods from Boyle Heights to Wilmington in the homelessness crisis. Essential California: California's winners and losers from Trump's tax plan 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Most had to walk hours more, through torrential downpours, to reach the refugee shantytown. Desperate Rohingya Flee Myanmar on Trail of Suffering. ‘It Is All Gone.’ 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z The deluge revived memories of 2005 floods that killed more than 500 people, the majority of them in shantytown slums where more than half the city's population lives. Six die in rains lashing India's business hub, more downpours forecast 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Today, most of the world’s remaining Bushmen live in shantytowns, resettlement camps and nature preserves, ravaged by diseases such as diabetes, alcoholism and HIV that were unheard of in previous generations. Bushmen who have little have much to teach us about living well 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z What was a vertical shantytown is now a bright, clean shopping arcade bustling with small businesses—a nail salon, a bridal shop, a penis-enlargement clinic—along with floors of office space. How developers deal with “hijacked” buildings in Johannesburg 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The Nicaraguan National Guard had reportedly tortured civilians as part of its campaign against the Sandinista guerrilla fighters, and helicopters were dropping 500-pound bombs on shantytowns near Managua. Lawrence Pezzullo, U.S. diplomat who helped end Nicaragua’s Somoza regime, dies at 91 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Hoover regarded the Pennsylvania Avenue encampment as an eyesore, no different from the other Depression shantytowns that his critics dubbed “Hoovervilles.” The veterans were desperate. Gen. MacArthur ordered U.S. troops to attack them. 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z The deluge revived memories of 2005 floods that killed more than 500 people, the majority of them in shantytown slums where more than half the city's population lives. Six die in rains lashing India's business hub, more downpours forecast 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z One of the largest shantytowns once occupied the concrete channel in the Tijuana River, but the police burned it down. Driving the Most Controversial Strip of Land in Trump's America 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Residents of Rio’s shantytowns bemoan the end of the army’s 15-month mission to evict gangs. The Brazilian army is turning into a de facto police force 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Many of these immigrants, known as Mizrahi Jews, were sent to shantytown transit camps and largely sidelined. Israel’s Labor Party looks to rebrand with leadership vote 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Those in the cemetery prefer its relative quiet and safety to the city’s dangerous shantytowns. Hard Life Among the Dead in the Philippines 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z In their reeking shantytown, “children were useless, worth less than scrap metal.” South Korea like you’ve never seen it 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Some of Tijuana’s poorer neighborhoods are themselves only a step above shantytowns—houses without electricity or sewage hookups perched on steep, crumbling hillsides. Driving the Most Controversial Strip of Land in Trump's America 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z At the peak of the fighting, 25,000 people were living in this bleak shantytown. New report blames South Sudan military for civilian deaths 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z As the district expanded, it took on other characteristics, notably as a home to gecekondu, or shantytowns “built overnight” by migrant Turks from other parts of the country. Reading Erdogan’s Ambitions in Turkey’s New Mosques 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z The tactics were sometimes brutal and the problem was merely moved outside the city limits, where new shantytowns were formed and existing ones spread. Argentine capital seeks to improve iconic Villa 31 slum 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z When they arrived in Jordan, authorities penned them in at the Zaatari refugee camp, a shantytown of canvas tents over three square miles in the desert. Syrian refugees cook and tell stories at monthly supper club 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z On the windowsill is a book that documents how shantytowns that appeared across Seattle during the Great Depression. Tiny houses: salvation for the homeless or a dead end? 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z But all these methods have a significant margin of error and fail to account for racial biases, not to mention the toll that living in a shantytown might take on one’s skin-care regimen. Europe’s Child-Refugee Crisis 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Residents of shantytowns are at particular risk in the months of February and March, as the weather warms and the rains stop, officials said. Fire Tears Through Manila Slum, Leaving 15,000 Homeless 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z He bristled at attempts to bar military recruiting on campus, minimized the Iran-contra affair and dismissed a shantytown built on campus to protest South African apartheid. In Fall of Gorsuch’s Mother, a Painful Lesson in Politicking 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z The vast majority being women, this is one of the largest communities of nuns in the world — certainly the largest nun shantytown. In Remote Settlement High on Tibetan Plateau, Buddhist Spirituality Soars 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z The fees charge about $1.50 to use the only highway that links populous shantytowns and working-class districts on the outskirts of northern Lima with the city’s center. World Digest: Jan. 12, 2017 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z He spent the money from the sale on creating a social and health centre in a Sao Paulo favela or shantytown. Brazilian cardinal who stood up to military dies - BBC News 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z A few days later, Burtynsky filmed at Makoko—a shantytown with the population of a small city, where people live in houses propped on stilts over Lagos Lagoon. Edward Burtynsky’s Epic Landscapes 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z But surely those things happened only in desperate shantytowns, not in leafy, funky, elegant El Hatillo. Venezuela, A Failing State 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z “There’s food for everyone. Don’t worry,” Colque said as she dumped ravioli into the containers that the families would carry back to their ramshackle brick homes in the Villa 31 shantytown of Argentina’s capital. Macri's 'zero poverty' promise a distant goal for Argentina 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z “When we suffered, we prayed for the imam,” says a taxi driver in Baghdad’s teeming Shia shantytown, Sadr City. Islamic State’s messianic apocalypse is postponed 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Today it wears the look of a sprawling shantytown with crowded roads, dirty streets and a continuing sense of foreboding. What lies behind the Quetta police academy attack? - BBC News 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Instead they got new shantytowns, a US$45... Haiti Braces for Catastrophe as Hurricane Matthew Makes Landfall 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Police say three men were killed and several arrested in the raid on the Pavao-Pavaozinho shantytown. Brazil: Rio security chief stands down amid violence surge - BBC News 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z In Montana, he visited shantytowns and in New Zealand a pa, or Maori longhouse; he adored India for its color and its clamor. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z In Tondo, the shantytown area next to Manila port, most of the residents applaud the president's tough campaign. Philippines drugs war: The woman who kills dealers for a living - BBC News 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Both sides of the country immediately tried to claim as their own Rojas, a 20-year-old athlete from a shantytown in eastern Venezuela who became an instant national celebrity this week. Rio 2016: Venezuela Is Very, Very Proud of Its Three Medals 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z It's mid-morning and the local school in the large Delhi shantytown that I'm visiting, on the edge of India's vast capital, is teeming with children. Why some factory owners are celebrating India's child labour bill - BBC News 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Violence is on the increase in the city’s shantytowns and animals, like people, sometimes get caught in the crossfire. Dog shot 5 times in Rio survives, to be put up for adoption 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z They lived about two blocks apart in Changi Amar Sadhu, a crowded Lahore shantytown where electrical wires and phone lines crisscross overhead in a crazy jumble that obscures the sky. In Pakistan, gruesome 'honor' killings bring a new backlash 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z Rojas says his firm is the only travel agency that offers “shantytown tours,” along with more traditional historical and culinary tours of Lima. AP PHOTOS: Shantytown tours offer different view of Peru 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Crime is most prevalent in Caracas’ hillside shantytowns, steep expanses of cinder-block homes splashed in bright hues that that seem to defy the overall bleakness of life there. The biggest worry in crisis-ridden Venezuela: crime 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z They live in shantytowns on the outskirts of cities, are often refused schooling and work menial jobs like shoe-shining or street cleaning or turn to begging. The 'untouchables' of Yemen caught in crossfire of war 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Los Angeles has the largest unsheltered homeless population in the country, and tattered shantytowns have spread citywide, far from their roots in the downtown area. L.A. agrees to return tiny houses seized from homeless people 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The case was sparked by a 2007 investigation that found more than two dozen grenades in an Istanbul shantytown and eventually led to the prosecution of military officers, journalists, academics and politicians. Turkish Court Overturns Coup Plot Convictions of Generals 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Dozens of riot police vans are parked on the hard shoulder overlooking the largest shantytown in Europe. ‘That thing gnawing away at all of us’: Calais and the shantytown on its doorstep | Emmanuel Carrère 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Demand for housing turned the area near the hypocentre into a shantytown of 10,000 homes that were little more than wooden shacks, with sanitary facilities shared among several households. Story of cities #24: how Hiroshima rose from the ashes of nuclear destruction 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Last month the leader of one of the strongest Shia factions, Muqtada al-Sadr, sent out his followers from Baghdad’s shantytowns to join the protests. Abadi agonistes 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z It had been the same thing in the 1980s: College students built shantytowns, but universities continued to invest in South Africa’s Apartheid regime. Gen X needs to forget about Hillary Clinton: My generation is far too cynical about Bernie Sanders’ message 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z On the outskirts of this coal town, miners live in unheated, cement-block shantytowns. Labor Unrest Grows in China's Revolutionary Heartland 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z THE Mall del Sur, a new $200m shopping centre at the gateway to Lima’s sprawling southern shantytowns, is crowded on Good Friday morning, even though its two anchor department stores are not yet operating. Choosing a new broom 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z “Don’t think Section 8 or a shantytown,” said Joe Stevens, the organization’s founder. Village of tiny homes proposed to help Des Moines’ homeless 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z The family settled in a shantytown near La Ceiba. An aid agency is relocating several thousand people who had fled to Haiti from the Dominican Republic and set up informal settlements along the Haitian side of the border 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z That means there’s not enough money to expand police “pacification” units in the violence-wracked Mare complex of 15 shantytowns near Rio’s international airport. Brazil trims anti-violence program due to budget woes 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Downpours were so bad in Paraguay’s capital, Asunción, that shantytowns sprouted along city streets, filled with families displaced by floods. El Niño Upsets Seasons and Upends Lives Worldwide 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z He has met me in the manner of the mayor he effectively is of the shantytown we are visiting. Notes on the great Syrian exodus: ‘Epic in scale, inconceivable until you witness it’ | Richard Flanagan 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Thus began a series of collaborative installations that included a misty shrine and a chaotic shantytown. Art collective builds a dream house in Santa Fe with millions of dollars — and junk 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z In Calais, authorities maintained the sprawling shantytown, which cropped up years ago but mushroomed last year in the midst of the migrant crisis, is a sanitation risk. Faced with yet another buildup of migrants caused by border restrictions in central Europe, police in Greece remove hundreds of Afghans from its border with Macedonia after their route into Europe is blocked 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z As a Jesuit priest in Buenos Aires, Francis often preached in the city's shantytowns. 5 major themes of Pope Francis' trip to Mexico 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z They are trying to stop open garbage-dumping, an especially monumental challenge in the hundreds of favelas, or shantytowns, that interlace dense metropolitan areas such as São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Recife. Fighting the ‘Cockroach of Mosquitoes’ 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z But as the marchers made their way from a shantytown on the outskirts of Cairo to the upscale Mohandessin neighborhood, more people joined them. Five years on, Tahrir Square activists look back at Egypt's revolution: 'Maybe we were naive' 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z On Monday, French police brought in bulldozers to clear part of a shantytown near Calais known as the Jungle, home to 5,000 migrants. EU could 'fail as a political project' because of migrant crisis, leaders say 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z In France, authorities prepared to evict people from a shantytown known as the "jungle" in the port of Calais, where migrants wait for a chance to try to cross into Britain. Faced with yet another buildup of migrants caused by border restrictions in central Europe, police in Greece remove hundreds of Afghans from its border with Macedonia after their route into Europe is blocked 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z The pope, who is from Argentina, frequently visited shantytowns during his time as archbishop of Buenos Aires. Pope Criticizes ‘New Colonialism’ During Slum Visit 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Each house of worship keeps its distance in the sprawling shantytown. Muslims to the left, Christians to the right: Feuding faiths, nations coexist in Calais camp 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z By last count, more than 4,000 veterans, many with addictions, brain injuries and other impairments, sleep in alleys, on park benches or in sidewalk shantytowns throughout Los Angeles County. Draft master plan is unveiled for long-neglected VA campus in West L.A. 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Back in 1849, the year that Morgan arrived in California, the peninsular settlement that would become the City by the Bay was not much more than a conglomeration of shantytowns. Shell Game: There Is No Such Thing as California "Native" Oysters [Excerpt] 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z On a Saturday night in late May, I sat in the back seat of a taxi as it drove through a shantytown in Baghdad. An Activist in the Sex-Trafficking Underworld of Iraq 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z But the Rio shantytown, Vidigal, quadrupled in size over the next two decades. How the Pope Flies: Across Four Continents with John Paul II 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Those who would understand Francis' papacy would do well to come to this poor parish in one of Buenos Aires' most violent, drug-infested villas, as shantytowns here are called. Argentina remembers the future Pope Francis as a man of the people 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Connected to a spotless metro, cable cars ferry nearly 40,000 people a day from the hillside shantytowns to the downtown below in less than 15 minutes. Colombia's Medellin pushes slum renewal in shadow of gangs 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z After he was named Archbishop of Buenos Aires, in 1998, Bergoglio began to dedicate himself to the poor, travelling by bus through Buenos Aires and spending time in the city’s shantytowns. Can Pope Francis Really Change the Church? 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z He said the fish most likely died because of insufficient oxygen due to pollutants and untreated human waste flowing into the lagoon from nearby condominiums and sprawling shantytowns. Activist: thousands of fish dead near Olympic Park in Brazil 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z The Colombians who abandoned their cinder block homes Tuesday in a riverside shantytown community known as La Invasion — “the Invasion” — said they were given 72 hours to pack up and leave by Venezuela’s army. Venezuela and Colombia Vow to Cooperate in Border Dispute 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The money is going to redevelop shantytowns and to build wastewater treatment facilities, as well as expand road and rail networks. Devaluation Hints at China’s Rising Distress Over Economy 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z But later, many ran out of money and had to eke out livings in the shantytowns of the desert city of Copiapo. Hollywood film 'The 33' about trapped miners starring Banderas, Binoche is released in Chile 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z When residents of Vila Autodromo, a favela, or shantytown, were forcibly evicted from the edge of the Olympic Park there were violent protests. 2016 Olympics organisers hope for post-Games Rio revival - BBC News 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Pope Francis, wrapping up his three-country tour of South America, on Sunday urged people living in a flood-prone shantytown in Paraguay to stay united in their struggle for better living and working conditions. Stay united in fight for change, Pope tells Paraguay slum dwellers 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Guards secure only the perimeter of the sprawling, maximum-security Palmasola prison, while murderers and drug traffickers run its units, more shantytowns than prison wings, charging inmates for all aspects of their existence. Shun gangs, have hope, Pope tells inmates at violent Bolivian jail 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Francis’ stops later include a violent Bolivian prison, a flood-prone Paraguayan shantytown and a meeting with grass-roots groups in Bolivia, the sort of people he ministered to in the slums of Buenos Aires as archbishop. Pope Francis Returns to South America 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Francis’ scheduled stops include a violent Bolivian prison, a flood-prone Paraguayan shantytown and a meeting with grass-roots groups in Bolivia, the sort of people he ministered to in the slums of Buenos Aires as archbishop. Pope Francis arrives in South America with message of hope for neediest 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Francis' stops include a violent Bolivian prison, a flood-prone Paraguayan shantytown and a meeting with Bolivian trash pickers, the sort of people he ministered to in the slums of Buenos Aires as archbishop. 3-nation tour on native turf gives Pope Francis pulpit for issues he holds dearest 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Born in a shantytown in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, he has lived in the Dominican Republic since he was 11. The Dominican Time Bomb 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z As archbishop of Buenos Aires, Father Bergoglio focused on the teeming shantytowns known as “villas miseria,” or villages of poverty, many of them populated by poor Bolivian and Paraguayan immigrants. Pope to Bring His Message to Latin America 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The French Office for Protection of Refugees and Expatriates is able to house only a third of new applicants directly, while many sleep outdoors, in train stations or tent shantytowns. African migrants find uneasy EU shelter after rough journey 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z In 1968, "Resurrection City," a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People's March on Washington, D.C., was closed down by authorities. Briefing: Since 9/11, Homegrown Extremists Deadlier Than Al-Qaida 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z When the team arrives, the once-brilliant maze of red-brick alleys more resembles a forlorn shantytown. Meet the American First Responders on the Ground in Nepal 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z If you live in a shantytown, you operate outside of the legal economy. How Bitcoin Will End World Poverty 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Francis, who was known as the "slum bishop" in his native Buenos Aires because of his frequent visits to shantytowns, has made concern for the poor a major plank of his papacy. Vatican to give homeless private VIP tour of Sistine Chapel 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z She began dribbling as a child in the alleyways of the shantytown where she and her six siblings live. Scoring the equaliser 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Pope Francis took a detour Sunday and stunned the residents of a Roman shantytown with a surprise visit. Watch Pope Francis' Surprise Visit to a Roman Shantytown 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z From the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro to the cities of northern Mexico, Latin America is fertile ground for extortion thanks to corrupt police forces, drug cartels and a climate of lawlessness. Boom in Colombian extortion rings undermines security gains 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Here in the Bahamas, Mr. Timothee’s arrest coincided with stepped-up immigration raids in predominantly Haitian shantytowns, where people who lacked passports or work permits were apprehended. Haitians Are Swept Up as Bahamas Tightens Immigration Rules 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z "It's tradition," said Davis, 36, who said he lives in Miami, referring to the shantytowns Dead fans would create in parking lots of arenas and stadiums when the band toured regularly decades ago. 'Deadheads' seek to camp out near Soldier Field 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Climate change, which will be felt first and worst by the poor, might scorch marginal farmland, pushing tens of millions into fetid slums and shantytowns. The Age of Miracles 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z In most cases, they died fighting the criminal gangs that control many of the city's shantytowns, or favelas. Brazil police demand more protection 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Hundreds of homeless people turned 68 acres in San Jose into a shantytown with lean-tos and underground bunkers, even a treehouse. Sprawling Silicon Valley homeless encampment being shut down 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Hundreds of homeless people turned 68 acres along Coyote Creek into a shantytown with lean-tos and underground bunkers, even a treehouse. San Jose begins closing down 68-acre homeless encampment 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Walking through South African shantytowns, I mainly met grandmothers and their grandchildren. Treatment of AIDS will require targeting the regions and populations most affected While he was exploring how best to meet the overwhelming need in the community, Sagastegui, who lived in great poverty in a shantytown, also was asking questions and seeking solutions. Men who helped Peruvian poor reunite in Kingsville 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z Like others in this shantytown, he’s desperate, and the persistent drought isn’t helping. ‘Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain’: Kal Penn, Martin Sheen star in melodramatic retelling of Indian disaster Building collapses are common in Egypt, where shoddy construction is widespread in shantytowns, impoverished neighborhoods and rural areas. At least 17 killed in Egypt by building collapse 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z What happens to the political aspirations of a resident of a grubby shantytown home so small that his living space is sometimes equal to the non-existent toilet? Are Gujarat's 'toilet politics' democratic? 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z From the drying shed where Grace hangs salmon to smoke, makeshift structures spread like a shantytown: shacks, trailers with broken windows, old tires, couches and rusted boats. Indians living in squalor want decent housing near Columbia River 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z Dylan still lives in a shantytown known as Villa 31, where the game is unheard of and often confused with polo - another sport largely restricted to the wealthy in Argentina. Golf prodigy began by swinging a broken broomstick 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Many limeños remember that, in the job in 2003-10, he built municipal hospitals in poorer areas and concrete stairways in shantytowns. Divide and bribe 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z With every new beheading, refugees face the possibility of being displaced once again from their street corners in Beirut, and their tents and shantytowns in the countryside. Is Islamic State heading for Lebanon? 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Riots broke out last week in West Point, a coastal shantytown of 70,000 people in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, as the government enforced a quarantine. Groups rush to avoid food crisis in Ebola-stricken areas Workers hurried up the slope to the upscale enclave from the dusty downtown below; Jalousie, a shantytown of pastel-painted cinderblock homes, hovered above. Haitian Migrants Turn Toward Brazil 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Problems still surface after major rainstorms when sewage from illegal connections or shantytowns gets mixed with rainwater and flushed into the bay, said Jose Candido Muricy, a Rio government spokesman for Olympic and environmental issues. Rio passes first Olympic test, water quality surprises 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The country’s relatively new capital of Abuja – built in the 1980s and filled with modern hotels, restaurants and other luxuries – is surrounded by shantytowns populated by abjectly poor citizens. Nigeria Hit by Abuse Accusations as It Hunts Boko Haram 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Heavy rains, which always cause flooding in this huge shantytown, also disrupted television reception. Brazil's World Cup run is over but political ramifications still unclear 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Images of glimmering stadiums, specially built bullet trains and newly peaceful shantytowns would showcase Brazil's brand of leftist but market-friendly policies, winning new imitators in Latin America, Africa and beyond. World Cup humiliation another blow to Brazil's confidence 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z It’s a shantytown that clings to a mountainside at the end of Leblon beach, with breathtaking views of Rio’s golden sands. Manager of popular Brazil hostel found dead 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Others remain institutionalized shantytowns without basic services like water and sewers. Boom Meets Bust in Texas: Atop Sea of Oil, Poverty Digs In 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z But with millions of people living in urban shantytowns, even unsafe buildings attract residents. 11 Die in India as Buildings Collapse 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z When I spotted the shantytown, Contractor added, “That pitched roof is also us.” The Slumdog Millionaire Architect 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z The program, which began in 2008, created permanent police stations in the city’s notorious shantytowns, known as favelas, to combat violence and reduce the influence of drug gangs. World Cup security a wild card for Brazil’s police force 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z Much of the crime takes place around the cities’ favelas or shantytowns, home to about 20 percent of Rio de Janeiro’s population. 5 things to know about World Cup security 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Nearly half of the shantytown was reduced to smouldering piles of thatch and charred debris, AP reported. Delhi slum fire destroys 500 huts 2014-04-25T13:38:44Z A controversial programme to drive drugs gangs from Brazil's shantytowns has led to accusations of police oppression and murder. VIDEO: Rio's favela crackdown 'criticised' 2014-04-27T22:39:44Z In February, Contractor took me to see one of his newest projects, an 85-story Y-shaped condominium tower called Minerva that is being built atop a former shantytown. The Slumdog Millionaire Architect 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z I must have spoken, or tried to speak, to dozens of residents of the shantytown but not a single one would go on the record. Fear and mistrust in Rio's favelas 2014-04-24T04:04:20Z More than two dozen police face charges from a high-profile case in a different shantytown, when investigators said a local man died while being tortured by police. Violence erupts in Rio slum near Olympic venues 2014-04-23T23:22:39Z It began before dawn, when more than 1,000 police backed by soldiers and armoured vehicles took up position in Mare, one of Rio largest shantytowns. Brazil secures Rio slum in mass raid 2014-03-30T23:39:09Z Security forces staged a massive operation to move into the shantytowns as part of a campaign to clean up the Brazilian city ahead of the football World Cup. Day in pictures: 1 April 2014 2014-04-01T13:15:22Z In order for a developer to secure the rights for a coveted plot, 70 percent of the shantytown’s occupants have to vote in favor of that builder. The Slumdog Millionaire Architect 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z It's a long cry from the days when most, if not all of Rio's shantytowns were only visited by police in heavily armed lightning-style raids, more often than not in pursuit of a suspect. Fear and mistrust in Rio's favelas 2014-04-24T04:04:20Z Elite police units later entered the slum, and at least three prolonged exchanges of gunfire were heard, presumably between officers and the drug gang members who continue to maintain a presence in the shantytown. Violence erupts in Rio slum near Olympic venues 2014-04-23T23:22:39Z It began before dawn, when more than 1,000 police backed by soldiers and armoured took up position in Mare, one of Rio largest shantytowns. Brazil secures Rio slum in mass raid 2014-03-30T13:51:36Z Shooting erupted on Thursday between drug traffickers and the police near the Manguinhos complex of shantytowns. World Briefing: Brazil: Rio de Janeiro Asks for Help to Fight Crime 2014-03-21T23:56:34Z Shooting broke on Thursday night between drug traffickers and police in a slum near the Manguinhos complex of shantytowns. Rio asks for federal troops after gangs attack police in slums 2014-03-21T13:29:14Z The president was to preside over a military parade in Caracas on Wednesday, followed by a ceremony at the mausoleum housing Chavez's remains on a hilltop shantytown. Amid protests, Venezuela to remember late Hugo Chavez 2014-03-04T16:47:53Z The idea was to bring the rhythms of life in a poor shantytown to the heart of one of Africa's richest cities. South Africa Shrugs as Artists Try to Turn It Avant-Garde 2013-12-27T03:45:13Z Land disputes at this settlement and similar shantytowns up and down the coast are among the many reasons the recovery effort here is faltering. Land Disputes Slow Recovery in Philippines 2013-12-14T02:35:29Z There are other critical issues to overcome, including attempts by the city to evict shantytown dwellers who live too close to the Olympic Park for the liking of some. A thousand days until 2016 Olympics 2013-11-09T19:26:50Z Consider the 351 vehicles he donated to police forces now deployed in Rio's favelas, notorious shantytowns long dominated by drug gangs. Insight: As Brazil's Batista falters, Rio dream does too 2013-10-20T12:18:40Z A modest dwelling in Kabul’s Char-qala shantytown, it seems far too small for its tenant — Afghanistan’s newfound national hero. Afghan Soccer Captain: Meet the Humble Hero 2013-09-18T07:35:26Z All four men were said to be from an area close to the San Carlos shantytown in the east of Sao Paulo where the boy's family was living. Boy's 'killers' dead in Brazil jail 2013-08-31T04:26:25Z When I visited in April 2012, Rosa Reyes, community leader of the Fundo San Jose shantytown, told me how grateful she was to Zolezzi and his team for changing their lives. Why Profits, Entrepreneurship, And Social Good Are Not Incompatible 2013-08-27T14:51:00Z While not on the scale of last year's carnage, machete attacks on mine guards, shantytown riots and tit-for-tat killings between the unions still take place. South Africa mines less violent as AMCU union plays by rules 2013-08-27T06:06:50Z The workers occupied a rocky hill near Lonmin’s mine and the shantytown where many miners live. Killing of Striking Workers Alters South Africa Politics 2013-08-16T20:13:24Z It was filmed in a shantytown in Soweto where, just like the fictional aliens, the residents were about to be forcibly evicted. Elysium: A politically-charged 'popcorn sundae' 2013-08-12T00:21:43Z Today, one in five Cariocas, as Rio residents are known, live in shantytowns, piled high with raw brick and cinder-block homes. The Crisis in Rio 2013-08-07T19:15:00Z Then he shed his security detail and bulletproof car when visiting the slums and shantytowns. Brazil Greets Pope Francis Like a Rock Star 2013-07-26T21:50:22Z They lived in a the Sao Carlos shantytown in the east of the city. Boy's murder shocks Sao Paulo 2013-06-29T17:55:37Z And beneath the mountains at the gateway to the capital a vast, sprawling shantytown is taking place. Fear that slum will replace quake camps in Haiti 2013-06-20T15:54:44Z President François Hollande Socialist government came into office a year ago promising a better deal for the Roma, also known as Gypsies, an end to the shantytowns and the rehousing and integration of those displaced. Roma Still Shunned in France Ahead of E.U. Rules Change 2013-06-03T23:45:37Z About an hour’s drive on back roads from the camp is the shantytown near Sabha where the teenagers from Hama have lived for five months. Syrian Refugees in Jordan Struggle to Survive 2013-05-09T03:58:13Z The evangelical emphasis is not simply an effort to redirect the evangelicals and Pentecostals in South America, where they are exploding in shantytown and slum areas, back into the Catholic fold. Brazil Greets Pope Francis Like a Rock Star 2013-07-26T21:50:22Z Most afflicted by the gangs of criminals are poor residents living in the myriad shantytowns where the late president found his most fervent followers. Venezuela election rivals clash over crime 2013-03-18T13:31:26Z His rivals mostly drive through shantytowns in convoys, while saturating local media with campaign ads. Preview: Ecuador's Correa favored to easily win re-election 2013-02-14T12:15:01Z But a widening gap between rich and poor, eroding infrastructure, and government neglect of the shantytowns were also parts of the long, complex backstory of the popular uprising that toppled Mubarak. Two Years After Egypt's Revolution, an Economic Crisis Looms 2013-01-23T05:05:24Z About 900 other refugees in Rome live in equally, if not more, squalid conditions, according to a recent report, with one group occupying a shantytown along the Tiber. The Italian Paradox on Refugees 2012-12-26T23:46:42Z A resident was beaten to death by his neighbors after shouting that he started Tuesday’s shantytown fire in suburban San Juan city, Senior Fire Officer Domingo Cabog said. Philippines: 8 Dead, 5,000 Homeless After Christmas Fire 2012-12-26T13:35:33Z As police moved in, residents at the local Wonderkop shantytown set up barricades of burning tyres to try to block police access to their neighbourhood, reports said. SA police in Marikana crackdown 2012-09-15T15:04:06Z The police then moved into the Wonderkop shantytown, where residents set up barricades of burning tires to try to block the officers from their neighborhood. South Africa Continues a Crackdown on Miners 2012-09-15T15:54:38Z Until Brazil's recent boom helped begin reviving its fortunes, Rio suffered from a lack of investment, soaring crime rates, and the encroachment of favelas, the city's well-known shantytowns, into its verdant hillsides. Rio takes Olympic baton as skeptics fear it will fumble 2012-08-13T15:44:41Z Salaam Palace and an expanding population in shantytowns elsewhere in Italy are the result of what refugee agencies say is an Italian paradox surrounding asylum seekers here. The Italian Paradox on Refugees 2012-12-26T23:46:42Z Some 5,000 people were left homeless and 13 people were hurt in the shantytown. Philippines: 8 Dead, 5,000 Homeless After Christmas Fire 2012-12-26T13:35:33Z He set up his cookery school in Pachacutec, a sprawling shantytown an hour's drive north of central Lima, to help youngsters from the poor local families train to become chefs. Five Jamie Olivers you may never have heard of 2012-07-30T15:39:33Z As I trundled around a snow-capped wasteland dotted with mining equipment and shantytowns I encountered some new adversaries as well as some familiar ones. Borderlands 2 – preview 2012-07-13T12:26:24Z On Sunday, police fired teargas and used batons to break up a protest of more than 250 people in the Ombada shantytown area, one of Khartoum's poorest neighborhoods, witnesses said. Sudan breaks up protest, blames Zionist plot 2012-07-01T18:06:00Z At the same time, though, shantytowns grew, street children proliferated, employees of state-owned enterprises lost their jobs. The Tyrant's Brutal Legacy 2012-06-25T05:00:00Z The final match will played in Rio's Maracana stadium, not far from the shantytown. Rio slum dwellers join peace run 2012-05-28T00:34:10Z The 12,000-seat stadium will be called the "Phoenix Stadium," referring to hopes that the shantytown will rise up. Investors plan soccer stadium for Haiti shantytown 2012-05-25T17:35:10Z And rapid urbanization often results in shantytowns near riverbanks and marshes. World Bank Frets Over Urban Flooding in Asia 2012-02-13T17:01:11Z Brazil's capital city until 1960, Rio later fell prey to neglect, and a housing and jobs shortage that left one in five of its residents living in favelas, or shantytowns. Insider's Guide to Rio de Janeiro 2012-02-11T01:56:53Z Her work habits earned her the nickname Caveirao, the Brazilian name for armored vehicles police use in Rio to plow into crime-ridden shantytowns. Top Woman in Oil to Oversee $225 Billion Plan at Petrobras 2012-01-24T17:33:54Z For decades, the shantytown was a no-go zone for the police. Rio slum dwellers join peace run 2012-05-28T00:34:10Z The spark for the protests was the re-housing of dozens of families from a shantytown on the edge of Laghouat to a new apartment complex paid for by the state. Anger at squalid housing unleashes Algeria protest 2012-01-12T14:08:55Z Culture, scarcity, and maternal thinking: maternal detachment and infant survival in a Brazilian shantytown. Framing and definitions: are you maternal enough to be a woman? 2011-10-11T14:15:05.377Z They are disheartened to see China racing ahead while they walk past shantytowns and child beggars every day. A $31 Billion Loss Creates the Biggest Tea Party: William Pesek 2011-09-04T17:22:01Z The shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro may look terrible when compared to a prosperous Chicago suburb, but poverty rates in Rio are far lower than in Brazil’s rural northeast. Triumph of the City [Excerpt] 2011-08-17T12:15:02.737Z In the 1950s, city planners evicted nearly all of the quadrant’s residents and leveled most buildings, hoping to stop the steady stream of photographs that showed Southwest’s shantytowns. D.C.?s Southwest waterfront is reinventing itself again 2011-08-16T01:56:39Z Others end up with relatives, in district and provincial centers, or inside tent cities and shantytowns on the edges of Kabul’s sprawl. Alice-Ghan Journal: In Afghanistan, a Village Is a Model of Dashed Hopes 2011-08-09T01:50:13Z The shantytown of Pachacútec looks a little better nowadays than when it was first created 11 years ago. High Food in Low Places: The Gourmet Cooking School in the Middle of the Slum 2011-07-12T23:50:00Z Many are surrounded by skirts of shantytowns—or informal suburbs, as they are charitably described. Alexander McCall Smith on Gaborone, Botswana 2011-05-29T14:00:00Z Run by the local community itself, Museu de Favela is a project that draws on the deep cultural traditions of the shantytown to tell its story, not just to tourists but to Brazilians too. Art in the streets 2011-05-28T23:34:28Z “It’s hard to breathe,” Willie, 50, said last month at his home in Happy Valley, a trash-strewn shantytown near Cape Town, as he pulled the certificate from a worn folder. Gold Companies May Face $100 Billion Liability for Sick Miners 2011-05-26T04:54:46Z He was sworn in front of the country's collapsed National Palace and a shantytown filled with thousands of people displaced by last year's magnitude-7.0 earthquake that killed an estimated 230,000 people. New President Takes Power in Struggling Haiti 2011-05-14T15:34:48Z Mr. Cataldi says that before he stumbled upon it, this wedge of waterfront was a dumping ground and a “heroin shantytown.” | 'Birdman' of Inwood 2011-05-04T22:52:59Z The shantytown is one of several "pacified" under a programme to reduce violence in the city. VIDEO: 'City of God' welcomes Obama 2011-03-20T17:40:16Z It’s a shock to see shantytowns popping up in the northeast -- hundreds of thousands huddled into overcrowded shelters without enough water, food, blankets, medical supplies and other essentials. Tokyo Remains Stoic Amid Japan-Is-Doomed Reports: William Pesek 2011-03-17T19:04:59Z Living for weeks in a sprawling shantytown on mud flats in Anacostia and in tents and hovels near the U.S. Frank Buckles, last U.S. vet?eran of World War I, laid to rest at Arlington 2011-03-15T21:42:00Z Most of the awards that she received for her role in the Oscar-winning film were destroyed in the blaze that erupted in the Garib Nagar shantytown in Mumbai on Friday night. VIDEO: Fire destroys 'Slumdog' star's home 2011-03-05T17:13:47Z But in the shantytown in the current study -- located in the outskirts of Lima -- there is only one high-traffic roadway. Road traffic tied to poverty-stricken kids' asthma 2011-02-04T21:20:03Z Land for affordable housing, reconstruction of shantytowns, and medium and small commercial houses should be no less than 70 percent of the regional government’s total supply, the government said in the statement. China Boosts Home Down Payments, Seeks Price Targets 2011-01-27T04:09:04Z Land for affordable housing, reconstruction of shantytowns, and medium and small commercial houses should be no less than 70 percent of the regional government’s total supply, it said. China Boosts Second-Home Down Payment, Seeks Bigger Land Supply 2011-01-26T16:44:05Z It recognizes that new industrial development also needs houses, roads, schools and services, so that factories do not become surrounded by shantytowns. Editorial: Haiti, Going Forward 2011-01-15T04:03:07Z Toledo's most recent intervention, a radical remodelling of the city's largest shantytown, Rocinha, even featured a dramatic, curved walkway by Brazil's legendary architect Oscar Niemeyer. Rio de Janeiro favelas to get facelift as Brazil invests billions in redesign 2010-12-05T18:33:00Z But families in the Lima shantytown are generally poor, whether they live near the main road or not. Road traffic tied to poverty-stricken kids' asthma 2011-02-04T21:20:03Z Anyone living in India is inevitably confronted by squalor, whether the slums and shantytowns that exist in most cities or the beggars, often children, who tap on car windows for change. Uproar Over Cleanliness in India Sparks a Controversy 2010-09-24T20:50:00Z After falling asleep under a palm tree in one of the city’s shantytowns, he awakens in the care of a couple who hail from a feuding Somali clan. Jama?s Travels 2010-08-27T15:04:00Z Some of the gang members managed to flee to Rocinha, a sprawling hilltop shantytown that serves as the drug faction's headquarters, but at least 10 sought refuge in the hotel. Gunmen seize hostages in Rio de Janeiro hotel 2010-08-22T16:28:00Z Nomadic communities are often relegated to staying outside town walls, usually either in makeshift camps with few facilities supplied to them, or — for the poorest — in shantytowns and squats. France: Anger as Sarkozy Targets Roma in Crime Crackdown 2010-07-23T08:35:00Z During the violent crisis that engulfed Kenya following its disputed 2007 election, the shantytowns with their huge numbers of marginalized youths became notorious ethnic battlegrounds. Kenya's slum women risk health to avoid violence: group 2010-07-07T16:10:00Z Governments that were lavish in the good times, building their budgets on optimism and best-case scenarios, now risk being wrecked like a shantytown in an earthquake. The Other Financial Crisis 2010-06-17T09:05:00Z Yet many problems remain - including scattered pockets of shantytowns and local schools considered to be woefully below par. Memorials, World Cup: mixed emotions in S.Africa 2010-06-16T17:05:00Z The phenomenon was centered on South Africa's biggest shantytown, a sprawling warren of tin huts and red-dust lanes outside white Johannesburg called South Western Township — or Soweto, for short. Soccer in South Africa: Playing the Rebel Game 2010-06-09T22:30:00Z Crime is rampant, in shantytowns and posh suburbs. South Africa revels in its World Cup moment 2010-06-09T18:00:00Z Critics, including poor blacks living in impoverished shantytowns, have said it was wrong to spend over $5 billion on the sporting event in a country with one of the world's highest income disparities. South Africa banks on lasting World Cup legacy 2010-06-08T14:45:00Z KINGSTON, Jamaica—The government here defended its actions after a three-day siege in search of an alleged drug lord in a Kingston shantytown claimed at least 73 lives. After Jamaican Siege, a Bigger Battle 2010-05-29T01:23:00Z A week of heavy rains triggered floods and landslides on Monday that hit shantytowns on steep hills the hardest. Brazil landslide death toll rises 2010-04-10T01:12:00Z More than 50 houses were engulfed as mud and rubble poured into the Morro do Bumba shantytown near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil in landslide rescue effort 2010-04-09T01:24:00Z I don't just mean in shantytowns but also buildings for the middle classes. Chaos as Rio floods: Your stories 2010-04-07T05:54:00Z His high school, St. Xavier in Cincinnati, transformed its courtyard into a homeless shantytown. On Religion: Giving Up for Lent, but Also Taking On 2010-03-19T16:53:00Z After Jamaican Siege, a Bigger Battle KINGSTON, Jamaica—The government here defended its actions after a three-day siege in search of an alleged drug lord in a Kingston shantytown claimed at least 73 lives. After Jamaican Siege, a Bigger Battle 2010-05-29T01:23:00Z Most of the victims were residents of shantytowns. Brazil landslide death toll rises 2010-04-10T01:12:00Z At first, groups of shantytown women entered stores en masse, loaded baskets and left without paying — but also without touching the cash registers or breaking anything. The Moral Ambiguity of Looting 2010-03-06T20:50:00Z With help from the World Bank, Dr. Anderson has undertaken projects in St. Lucia and elsewhere in the Caribbean to reduce disaster risk in hilly shantytowns. 2010-01-19T17:12:00Z Heavily armed gang members have returned to the Cite Soleil shantytown since breaking out from prison after the quake. 2010-01-18T06:32:00Z More than a million families relied daily on international food aid, and the capital sprawled with shantytowns build by unemployed farmhands who had migrated to the city in search of work. 2010-01-16T16:38:00Z This Bonneyville's an awful shantytown; everybody in it is related to everybody else. Lone Star Planet How clean and decent and capable he appeared, the dark mill back of him; shantytown, vile, dirty, downtrodden, beside him! The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls You have millions of people moving in and building shantytowns, but nobody's working on step two: getting them out of those shantytowns. Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software |
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