Health workers, slum dwellers face housing bias as lockdowns lift

Bangkok, Thailand Thomson Reuters Foundation The easing of coronavirus lockdowns in cities around the world could lead to a rise in evictions of slum dwellers, housing experts warned on Wednesday, with healthcare workers and migrants also facing difficulties finding homes. More than six million people have been reported infected with the coronavirus globally, according to […]
“No time”: Latin America’s slum dwellers lead coronavirus battle

FABIO TEIXEIRA, ANASTASIA MOLONEY and OSCAR LOPEZ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how people living in slums in Latin America are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic…
Forced evictions leave 5,000 Kenyan slum dwellers at risk of coronavirus

Nairobi, Kenya Thomson Reuters Foundation Thousands of Kenyans in Nairobi are at risk of contracting the new coronavirus after authorities demolished their houses in the midst of the pandemic, human rights activists said on Wednesday. Authorities ordered bulldozers into the Kariobangi informal settlement in north-east Nairobi on Monday, demolishing some 600 homes and forcefully evicting […]
India slum dwellers win property rights, thousands left out

New Delhi, India Thomson Reuters Foundation India said on Thursday it had ushered in “a wave of change” for millions of slum dwellers – offering them the prize of home ownership – but it barred thousands more whose slums sit near temples, beauty spots and rich neighbourhoods. It is landmark move for more than four […]
SOUTH AFRICA: “DISPOSSESSED” URBAN POOR CALL FOR LAND REFORM

KEVIN MWANZA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…