Today over one billion people live in slum conditions. That's 1 in 8 people. Slum, considered informal settlements, are commonly found in cities. They are known for their inadequate housing along with overcrowding and poor living conditions. As people move into urban areas seeking better economic opportunities, governments struggle to support population growth. Many people who do not have access to alternate housing end up in slums and many others are born into the slums and struggle to escape. Slum residents do not own the right to the land they live in, but they settle and create homes nonetheless. The informal nature of slums often leaves residents on their own to access water and sanitation systems. Overcrowding and poor planning create narrow pathways and uneven earthen roads usually overrun by debris. Residents generally have limited access to building materials and turn to mud, wood and scrap metal to build and repair their homes.
The poor people's health is strongly associated with bad housing and overcrowding, and people in slum areas suffer inordinately from the killer diseases of the 20th century, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and waterborne disease. The existence of stored water further boosts the breeding of mosquitoes and diseases like malaria. For instance, alcoholism is a disease of the slums and it leads to moral and economic degradation. The slum area is common to be placed with a high incidence of crime. Not in every case, but in places of social dislocation with large numbers of unemployed young people, crime can be a serious problem for slum residents. Those kids who become literate, lack adequate educational levels to pursue greater studies the only means to break out of a vicious cycle of poverty. While Goa is at that the bottom in that the list, that the town of Mumbai has about 49 percent of its population living in slums. Slums cover only six percent of Mumbai's land and its expansion rate is higher than the general urban growth rate. Slums are a metropolitan phenomenon and growth in the city and they represent an imbalance between migration. These mill employees call from their villages in their own relatives and friends. Those people do not have a house they live in the streets, they do not have food to eat they beg and they eat. These people do not have shelter, food, clothes. They live in the streets, they only survive for food, Nobody sees there pain.
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