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A Growing Problem
Poverty Statistics
What is Adequate Shelter?
Actions Needed
• Infrastructure
• Investment
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SITUATION ANALYSIS: A GROWING PROBLEM
Estimates of demand for regulating and upgrading slums are based on the global estimate of percentages of slum dwellers by region made by UN-HABITAT for 2001 (UN-HABITAT 2003). These estimates assume that in the absence of interventions, the same percentage of urban dwellers living in slums today will be living in slums in 2020.
These percentages were applied to the urban population based on United Nations estimates and projections. The resulting figures represent the aggregate of total current and potential slum dwellers expected by 2020--570 million people worldwide--gives the estimated number of urban dwellers who will have to be provided with adequate alternative solutions in order to avoid new slum formation.
Assuming that the 100 existing slum dwellers will be provided with adequate housing through regulating and upgrading, the total number of lives that would be affected by reaching Millennium Development Goal 7, Target 11 by 2020 would be 670 million.
Source: UN-HABITAT 2003
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