Mumbai’s luxury development adversely affects poor
Mumbai’s slum dwellers are being evicted in order to accommodate billion-dollar construction plans.
November 4, 2010 1:53 by shafeer
As the demand for upscale real estate increases in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, ranking it among the most expensive cities in the world, the poor feel the change most keenly. Millions of the poorest of the urban poor dwelling in nearby slums will be soon rendered homeless as a result of evictions.
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