{"id":261336,"date":"2025-11-12T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=261336"},"modified":"2025-11-09T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T13:43:11","slug":"a-world-of-slums","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/a-world-of-slums\/","title":{"rendered":"A world of slums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/35252\/share-of-urban-population-living-in-slums\" target=\"_blank\">Over a billion people live in slums<\/a>, an increase of more than a hundred million over twenty years.<\/p>\n<p>This is mainly in Asia and Africa, with unplanned urban growth meaning that people often build their own poor-quality unsanitary homes. In south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, around half of city-dwellers live in slums.<\/p>\n<p>The real reason, though, is the massive inequality that marks this capitalist world, with so many having their lives disrupted and being forced to move to cities. Whether this is a result of war, climate change, economic problems or other causes, it shows clearly that the present global system cannot satisfy even the basic demands of much of the population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-261336","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/261336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}