According to the World Bank, the number of urban poor in the world will triple from the year 2000 to 1.5 billion by 2025. Nearly, one-third of all city dwellers already live in substandard housing. In a few decades, it is probable that the process of urbanisation of poverty will have gone its course in India also. Then, the situation now found in Latin America, with about 90 per cent of the poor living in urban areas, would be a fact for India too. According to ...
