Around 1million
Many people are homeless or live in the slums in the Philippines. It is estimated that 40% or over 32 million people are either home or live in the slums.
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From the 2009 census, about 170,000 people.
There were too many rich people
Almost 20 million people
4 million
Well for a start, there are so many cars (15,000,000 people live in mumbai). People litter alot, and the factories produce alot of smog and CO2.
Many families live in the slums on the outskirts of the city.
Slums are often quoted as slums of hope or slums of dispair depending on the conditions it actually is in. They are called slums of hope because they allow people living in the slums to transit into a better lifestyle with time given the economic opportunities to propel forward. One example would be Dharavi in Mumbai where the the informal economy provides jobs for the biggest slum in Asia. It has created an estimated 5000 businesses and 15000 single room factories (wiki). Also the recycling industry is quite famous for the Dharavi's 13th compound a place where over 8-% of Mumbai's waste is given a new lease of life. It is know as the 'Dharavi's Recycling Miracle', the ecological heart of Mumbai, recycling up to 85% of all waste materials produced by the ciity. This is a pertinent example of how a slum provides jobs for the dwellers, giving them a hope of a possible climb up the social ladder with time. There are many more examples of how slums have given people a new lease of life, a life better from being in a state of homelessness - coined by geographers as a state in which one lacks a permanent roof.
Approximately 2.3 million people live in slums in Accra, Ghana. Slums in Accra are characterized by overcrowding, lack of basic services, and poor living conditions. Accra's slum population continues to grow due to urbanization and migration from rural areas.
40% of the population of Sao Paulo.
They could not afford to live anywhere else.