Housing is hard to come by in Riyadh, where some 23% of Saudis live, and rent is skyrocketing, even in the most run-down parts of the city. A two-bedroom apartment in the capital’s worst slums ...

Beggars panhandle in the shadows of Riyadh’s luxury shopping malls, and just a few kilometers away families struggle to get by in the capital’s southern slums. While the government has finally ...

For instance, an analysis of a sample of parcels in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, found that 40 square kilometers ... If property is mapped, developers often pay slum dwellers for land they occupy, then ...

The strategy was drafted by experts following a directive by King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz in 2002, in his capacity as the Crown Prince, after he had visited a Riyadh slum. As part of efforts to ...