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U.N. expert calls for India to ramp up action to help slum dwellers
2016-04-25 13:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: India's ambitious target to build 20 million new homes for the nation's poor is failing slum dwellers and those living on the city's streets, Leilani Farha, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, has warned. She said India, which has the world's largest number of urban poor and landless people, is trying to address the "scourge" of inadequate housing through its 'Housing for all' policy that vows to provide homes for all families by 2022. But opponents fear...
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