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PLANET OF SLUMS REPORT
By Ryan Schuhler
The Location of Slums
Most urban poor now live in slum communities which are located on the outskirts of bigger third world cities.
Slums are typically formed in areas where no one else wants to live, such as where sewage is dumped.
Actions of the Government
The Government tends to try to go in and clean up the slums, but they end up just moving the poor to new places.
Most of the time the government does absolutely nothing to help out the poor people of slums.
Sometimes the government provides housing, but it really doesn’t help the poor, only the middle class.
Diseases in Slums
Over 36 million people have HIV/AIDS in the world.
95% of these people are in the slums of the global south.
Tuberculosis and
malaria also ravage
the poor of the
slums.
Job Outlooks
There are over 1 billion people who are identified as the informal working class.
There are not enough jobs for the number of people, and many are without work and cannot escape their poverty.
The severe lack of jobs
results in opportunity for
exploitation.
Future of Slums
Because of migration enforcement, the poor are restricted from well off countries.
Slums worldwide are said to grow by 25 million people a year.
The available land is diminishing for squatters and the poor.
The real question is will the
poor eventually have had
enough and revolt.