The Telegraph Online had earlier reported on the people living for seven decades on the sixth floor roof of Karnani Estate on ...

Researchers at the National Taiwan University have proposed to use rooftop solar power generation as an antidote to the so-called rooftop slum, which consists of building illegal housing on the ...

However, an innovative rooftop sports facility known as 'Cover ... Cover Drive' is seen as a positive development for the slum dwellers. Local players appreciate the space, even though many ...

In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has more than 2,000 dwellings, most of them airless, one-room homes, residents who are part of the project, such as Nehal Vijaybhai ...

By 2007, it became home to 3,000 people who left their shanties in the ill-reputed Petare slum of east Caracas and moved into the half-constructed high-rise with large rooms, balconies. Picture by: ...

Starting off with the roofs of 300 houses, the mammoth 7,000 rooftop slum was transformed into a vibrant synthesis of local stories. It eventually became the pride of the slum dwellers ...

With the help of Unita Subbdivisa, a pressure group for housing problems, junior reporter Veronica Lin visited rooftop slums and subdivided apartments, while Clara Chan learned about the ...