| It states that in Africa, Asia and Latin America there are 600 million people living in squatter settlements around conurbations that lack any sanitation infrastructure. |
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| Many urban fringes consist largely of squatter settlements and illegal developments. |
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| Over a half billion people in the Asian and Pacific region live in slums and squatter settlements. |
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| Of these beneficiaries, 19,728 families used to live in tin-sheet huts and 35,521 families used to live in squatter settlements. |
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| Some people are living in squatter settlements and illegal housing, on railway rights-of-way, and around the peripheries of cities or suburbs. |
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| Extensive squatter settlements, often lacking basic services, are a common element of all Mexican cities. |
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| Some 16m Egyptians, according to the World Bank, inhabit informal and squatter settlements. |
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| In contrast to this well-organized tent city, many refugees languish in improvised squatter settlements. |
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| It legalises squatter settlements set up on private land before 2005 the eighth such measure in the past four decades. |
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| Slums and squatter settlements arise in part due to the colossal gap in the supply of affordable formal sector housing. |
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| Such squatter settlements are often illegal but generally represent the only option open to poor people, migrant or native, in search of shelter. |
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| Socially disadvantaged communities throughout large cities, including suburbs and squatter settlements. |
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| By 2030, two thirds of the world's population will be living in urban areas, with the majority in slums and squatter settlements. |
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| Where slums or squatter settlements are large and slum or squatter populations dominate electoral constituencies, the urban poor tend to have more influence on municipal policies and programmes. |
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| Some 370,000 other internal refugees crowd Baghdad, half in unserviced squatter settlements. A dozen checkpoints and a 150km of potholed highway to the south the picture looks impressively different. |
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| Even if slum-dwellers are entitled to vote, they may have little political influence if the slums and squatter settlements in which they live are small and scattered within other types of residential areas. |
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| Indo-Fijians have also been turfed out of squatter settlements around Suva. What of the future of Mr Chaudhry, till May the country's elected Indo-Fijian prime minister, and head of a multi-racial government? |
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| Urban squatter settlements and inner-city ghettos include dwellings constructed of cardboard, discarded inner tubes, and other scavenged materials. |
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| Land speculation thrives in illegal squatter settlements where land is subdivided into plots and sold to low-income groups, usually for a moderate initial outlay. |
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| On 3 March 2007, three people were killed and 20 injured after violence erupted in the Blacksands and Anabrou squatter settlements in Port Vila, the Capital of Vanuatu, between rival groups from Tanna and Ambrym islands. |
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| As a result, slums and squatter settlements have proliferated under the assumptions that investing in rural development can arrest urbanization and that slum-dwellers would graduate to the formal housing sector over time. |
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| Rapid urbanization in the country has created pockets of dense slums and squatter settlements, each of which is home to thousands of street children. |
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| Jaipur has sought answers to challenges facing many cities: population growth at a staggering rate due to the inflow of economic immigrants from rural areas and the subsequent development of slum and squatter settlements. |
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| People living in squatter settlements can be evicted at short notice. |
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| The growth of impoverished squatter settlements in urban areas is putting pressure on Luanda and other African cities to increase municipal services and expand basic infrastructure. |
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