Indian Housing Plan to Sweep Away Slum
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MUMBAI, India _ Dharavi, a sprawling slum of tin-roofed shacks where goats nose through smoking garbage heaps and kids play by open sewers, hardly looks like prime real estate.
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An Indian company plans to burn toxic waste from the city of Bhopal, the site of the world's worst industrial disaster, despite environmentalists' objections.
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Beijing will demolish the last 22 squatter &quot;villages&quot; remaining in the city by June as part of efforts to beautify the capital ahead of the 2008 Olympics.
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India's government announces an ambitious plan to provide millions of poor people with social security.
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After decades putting up -- and tearing  down -- hundreds of thousands of cheap identikit homes, Britain  is planning a new wave of housebuilding with a major challenge:  to produce communities that last.
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The Indian government plans to open centres where people can abandon unwanted daughters in a bid to tackle the abortion of female foetuses and infanticide, a report said.
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Ever since it took over the public housing projects of New Orleans more than a decade ago, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has been itching to tear them down.
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Brazilian announces a major plan to improve conditions for people living in Rio's violence-hit slums.
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The demographic future belongs to cities like Mumbai, Shanghai and Dhaka.
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By Susan E. White, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Jun. 3--VIRGINIA BEACH -- Virginia Beach may never eliminate homelessness, but city leaders say a proposed 10-year plan could help residents find affordable housing and prevent others from losing their homes.
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By Jake Armstrong, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Feb. 24--TRACY -- Officials plan to squirrel away some of the city's liquid assets.
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PATNA, India  - Young girls and their mothers huddle under shawls in the central reservation of one of the city's main streets, picking through trash for grimy metal scraps that might earn them 20 rupees (half a dollar) a day.
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The federal government said Wednesday it will demolish some of the largest public housing projects in New Orleans, using the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to help improve poor, crime-ridden neighborhoods.
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From a boat on the Yamuna River that flows past India&#39;s capital, it&#39;s easy to spot bubbles of fetid gas sent up to the water&#39;s surface by rotting sewage -- and that&#39;s after at least 350 million dollars has been spent on cleaning it up.
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Housing on Indian reservations is plagued by substandard infrastructure and overcrowded conditions that can lead to a host of health problems, an advocacy group said Monday.
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Planners have been inundated with a flood of applications for new housing developments.
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The first sight for anyone flying into India's richest city is a sea of corrugated and tarpaulin-covered roofs beside a narrow, filth-choked river.