12 Facts About Slums

Slums are still predominantly found in urban regions of developing countries, but are still found in developed economies.

Slums were common in the United States and Europe before the early 20th century.

Slums are often associated with Victorian Britain, particularly in industrial English towns, lowland Scottish towns and Dublin City in Ireland.

Slums were found in every major urban region of the United States throughout most of the 20th century, long after the Great Depression.

Slums sprout and continue for a combination of demographic, social, economic, and political reasons.

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Slums thus create an informal alternate economic ecosystem, that demands low paid flexible workers, something impoverished residents of slums deliver.

Slums often have very narrow alleys that do not allow vehicles to pass.

Slums are often placed among the places vulnerable to natural disasters such as landslides and floods.

Slums have been historically linked to epidemics, and this trend has continued in modern times.

Slums are considered a major public health concern and potential breeding grounds of drug resistant diseases for the entire city, the nation, as well as the global community.

Slums's proposal was initially rejected for lack of land and other reasons; but Pearson and others persisted with creative proposals such as building the mass transit under the major roads already in use and owned by the city.

Slums exist in many countries and have become a global phenomenon.