In the oldest of those slums, wooden parts of the original shacks are still visible, patched up over the years with thin concrete walls, metal nets, plywood, sheet metal and plastic wires.

The iShack attempts to increase the living conditions in the world’s slums by incorporating solar panels, lights, a cell phone charger and--on the more deluxe models--a DVD player and fridge.

One of Wrigley Field’s famous relics nearly was discarded into a garbage bin at the start of the bleacher renovation last October before an enterprising cameraman came to its rescue. Now he&#… ...

Abahlali baseMjondolo, the organisation that represents shack dwellers, will on Thursday challenge KwaZulu-Natal's Elimination and Prevention of the Re-emergence of Slums Act in the Constitutional ...

Phumezo Tsibanto’s Original Home. Empower Shack is the result of a design-and-build workshop that took place in Khayelitsha, one of the largest slums in South Africa.

Shack dwellers in KwaZulu-Natal have set out to show that the provincial government acted unconstitutionally in promulgating its controversial anti-slums legislation in August last year.

Authorities on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte said they demolished more than 80 illegal dwellings as part of a crackdown on illegal migration and poor housing.

Journal #0: This journal can be found on the metal shelf to the left of the Quarter Master’s desk on the first floor of the Tower (It isn't marked on the map above). Journal #1: The “first ...

Abahlali baseMjondolo, the organisation that represents shack dwellers, will on Thursday challenge KwaZulu-Natal’s Elimination and Prevention of the Re-emergence of Slums Act in the ...