Brookings highlights the issue of concentrated poverty in urban slums, urging for systemic change.

D.C. residents and leaders warn that President Donald Trump’s “crime emergency” in the nation’s capital signals an ...

Similar slum clearance is occurring elsewhere throughout Africa. In Cape Town and Johannesburg, in South Africa, the practice is a legacy of apartheid and nowadays remains just as vicious.

What Will Become of America’s Slums? Efforts to dismantle segregation may take resources away from some of the poorest communities, where investment is most needed.

From our archives: ‘Drive to end slums’ In 1966, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. extended his mission beyond the South – pushing for progress in the North starting in Chicago.

About a sixth of the world's population — nearly 1 billion people — live in slums, and that number could double by 2030 if developed nations don't reverse course and start giving the issue ...