The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements 2003

Author(s)
UN-Habitat
Publication language
English
Pages
345pp
Date published
01 Jan 2003
Publisher
UN-Habitat
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Poverty, Shelter and housing, Urban
Organisations
UN Habitat

The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements 2003 is mainly concerned with the shelter conditions of the majority of the urban poor. It is about how the poor struggle to survive within urban areas, mainly through informal shelter and informal income-generation strategies, and about the inadequacy of both public and market responses to the plight of the
urban poor. But the report is also about hope, about building on the foundations of the urban poor’s survival strategies and about what needs to be done by both the public and non-governmental sectors, as well as by the international community, if the goal of adequate shelter for all is to have any relevance for today’s urban poor