
The number of people living out their days in the squalor of a slum is almost one billion, the United Nations says - one-sixth of the world's population
By 2050, the UN [2] says, there may be 3.5billion [3] slumdwellers, out of a total urban population of about six billion
Photo: Holly Davis at the Home Grown Story of UK Hip Hop exhibition in Manchester [4]
Links:
[1] https://ctrlaltshift.co.uk/sites/default/files/photo/image/Slums 001.jpg
[2] http://www.un.org
[3] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3161812.stm
[4] http://www.urbis.org.uk/page.asp?id=3340