AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) -- Habitat for Humanity has built a Third World slum in its own back yard as a sort of theme park of poverty that it hopes will motivate visitors to contribute to efforts to build ...

As if doing penance for Downton Abbey and Victoria, PBS is now paying attention to the working class with its new reality series, Victorian Slum House. The show scoops up a bunch of “21st-century ...

Marianna Wanjiku has 55 rental houses in Kibera’s Gatwekera, Lang’ata constituency. But since 2001, tenants have refused to pay rent.There are others who have taken over the houses to rent to other ...

SOME people are upset by slums. They feel sick themselves when they find four or five children sharing a bed in a windowless room and realize that the tubercular cough of one youngster means the ...