A man and a woman, tramping from shantytown to shantytown, have arrived back in New York.
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This quickly morphed into mass evictions, starting in the shantytown.
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They traveled to a shantytown in Mexico City for comparison.
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They traveled to a shantytown in Mexico City as a comparison.
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The prospectus said the bond would fund shantytown redevelopment and land purchases.
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"The destruction of the shantytown is not the solution," Mr. Guennoc said.
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Then there's the seemingly nightly orgies in the shantytown where the Tidelanders live.
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They now live in crowded and unhygienic shantytown camps just over the border.
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How this tiny, impoverished shantytown has cultivated such talent depends on whom you ask.
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The crude surface and loose wires made it look like "a shantytown," she said.
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Mr. Mosweu had lived in a shantytown for newer arrivals, called Scotland informal settlement.
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Most had to walk hours more, through torrential downpours, to reach the refugee shantytown.
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"When Chávez died, I cried," one woman in the San Isidro shantytown told me.
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No one wants to look at a shantytown and dirt when they fly in.
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The impact on prices in smaller cities, where shantytown redevelopments are concentrated, may be substantial.
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Mexican families, including mine, lived as campesinos, or peasants, in a shantytown on the outskirts.
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The shantytown is built along a disused rail track in the north of the Paris.
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They visit Ahyeon-dong, a hillside shantytown covered with identical two- or three-story tenements.
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His directorial stunts are epitomized by a choreographed sequence that destroys an entire hillside shantytown.
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The fire started early on Sunday and engulfed the shantytown, forcing its 226 residents to flee.
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Some areas are fenced off with pallets donated by local businesses, giving off a shantytown vibe.
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Separately in Yangon, at least six people were arrested as the authorities began clearing a shantytown.
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Mr. Rau and his crew filmed for hours in a shantytown near Matera and others beyond.
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The illegal shantytown emerged on a public wetland after 1989's Hurricane Hugo left thousands homeless.
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Residents of Complexo de Alemão, a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, have no such cause for cheer.
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What's more, a growing number of shantytown residents now receive cash – rather than new housing – as compensation.
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Like many favelas, Chacrinha is a kind of off-the-grid shantytown, at once neighborly and dangerous.
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Wade and Alice dwell in the Stacks, a shantytown of piled-up trailer homes in Columbus, Ohio.
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Her home, along with almost everything else in the mostly-Haitian shantytown called "The Mudd," is gone.
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More than a decade later, it is a dangerously overcrowded shantytown with few toilets and no electricity.
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The shantytown where Evelyn Hernández lives is so small and isolated that it doesn't appear on most maps.
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Instead of Death Valley, their home is Railway, an abandoned shantytown on the outskirts of Marseilles, South Africa.
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Rubbish, debris and discarded items such as bicycles could be seen next to the ramshackle, shantytown-style tents.
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"When we suffered, we prayed for the imam," says a taxi driver in Baghdad's teeming Shia shantytown, Sadr City.
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Costco is the size of Rhode Island and sells everything from couches to law school degrees to shantytown accommodations.
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It turned out to be a hillside shantytown in Lima, where she arrived at last after crossing into Peru.
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It's a shantytown of scrap yards and auto body shops, flanked by three intersecting streets that form a triangle.
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Contracts were awarded to several companies for the cleanup and days later, images emerged of one shantytown being bulldozed.
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In the Petare shantytown in the east, residents ambush water trucks to force them to unload in their neighborhoods.
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In the San Isidro shantytown, water flowed for two days in September for the first time in six months.
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The line of shops resemble a shantytown, with books packed among the dusty plastic sheeting and rusty metal frames.
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China will ensure it meets a target of revamping 18 million shantytown homes from 2015 to 2017, the cabinet added.
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Molina, 26, lives in the shantytown of Lujan near the wealthy capital with his parents, six siblings and four nephews.
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In Cazenga, a shantytown in the capital, residents recently marched down fetid, flooded streets in protest against their living conditions.
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Bernard said the babies generally arrive from Port-au-Prince&aposs largest shantytown, Cite Soleil, dropped off by heartbroken mothers.
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On Wednesday, residents of a shantytown in Laudium, west of Pretoria, held demonstrations demanding electricity be installed in their homes.
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She lives with her two children in the shantytown of Bajo Flores in Buenos Aires, all three sharing a single bed.
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In July, the housing ministry said it would aim to restrict compensation for shantytown dwellers in cities with hot property markets.
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Army spokesman Brigadier General Mafi Mgobozi said troops had moved to Khayelitsha on Friday, the largest black shantytown in Cape Town.
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ET. (CNN)A shantytown of plywood and pride, defiance and hope, Resurrection City was, 50 springtimes ago, the capital of Rev.
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At some point in the hazy past, an enterprising group of rule-followers wrested control of the shantytown from the administration.
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Otieno was raised in Kibera, Africa's biggest shantytown, where he documents the everyday realities of life through his project Kibera Stories.
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Ms. Pinto, the mother of five who lives in the San Isidro shantytown, bought water she thought was safer until 2017.
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Further along, we see a forest, what looks like a Depression-era shantytown and the Man in Black's C.G.I. mountain fortress.
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Drone footage showed residents of a shantytown there picking through wreckage and trying to drag plastic sheeting over their ruined homes.
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She visited one community that is building one-room shacks with metal roofs that she said look like something from a shantytown.
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Living with their families in shacks in a gold shantytown in the Andes, these women make a living gleaning gold from rubble.
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Or Patrick Chamoiseau, whose novel "Texaco" recounts Martinique's history as remembered by the insurgent residents of a shantytown menaced by city planners.
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During the regular blackouts and water outages, Aleyda Sabino's family in the Carapita shantytown walk to a nearby creek to get water.
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The vast majority being women, this is one of the largest communities of nuns in the world — certainly the largest nun shantytown.
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Half an hour away on foot in a different shantytown is Ashley's twin, Audrey, who lives with her mom, Abel's older sister.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's housing ministry said on Tuesday investment in a massive shantytown redevelopment project totaled 1.74 trillion yuan ($255.68 billion) last year.
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In 2005, floods killed more than 500 people in Mumbai, the majority in shantytown slums home to more than half the city's population.
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From across the street, emerging from a shantytown, from under an umbrella of corrugated metal, several of Antanios' workers race to the office.
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A shantytown redevelopment project, begun four years ago to give rural residents new homes, has been slowed for lack of money, locals said.
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The track, which has remained more or less abandoned since 218, is today the site of the largest shantytown in the French capital.
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The track, which has remained more or less abandoned since 240, is today the site of the largest shantytown in the French capital.
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Dwellers were often encouraged, or sometimes forced, to buy existing homes in the city after their shantytown homes were dismantled, Chinese media have reported.
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"Life got very hard," he said, standing with others in a mud-brick shantytown in Kabul that serves as makeshift camp for displaced Afghans.
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She was raised in a tiny shantytown on the border between Tucumán and Santiago del Estero, two poor and conservative provinces in northern Argentina.
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"But as credit continues to tighten and monetary policy support for shantytown redevelopment has weakened, demand for home purchases will further decline," he said.
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Local officials then often use the funds for "shantytown redevelopment", a longstanding policy to tear down decrepit housing and replace it with newer structures.
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Willem Andrew, a scrap-dealer who lives on the edge of Villiersdorp's shantytown, has stopped using his washing machine to stay within 50 litres.
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"The Mud, as we know, has been completely destroyed or decimated," he said referring to a shantytown known as the Mud and the Peas.
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Rossello and Patenaude made the announcement in Villa Hugo, a shantytown in Canovanas, which sustained severe damage when Maria hit the island on Sept. 20.
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Such funds are injected into selected banks so that they can provide loans to specific sectors such as agriculture, small businesses and shantytown re-development.
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It isn't just that the game transitions from the bright and musical marketplaces to the drab, rambling shantytown of houseboats, it's how that transition happens.
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Even Penny Woolcock's intelligent production, set in a tsunami-prone shantytown in Sri Lanka, can't paper over the musical flaws of this musically luscious opera.
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The industrial neighborhood of Willets Point, Queens — replete with body shops, salvage lots and junkyards — has been long derided as a shantytown and an eyesore.
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The brothers had lived in Chisco Ikate, a neighboring shantytown where many say they are fearful they will be the next targets of the bulldozers.
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Margot was born to a teenage Delores, who herself grew up in an inland shantytown, dragged down by circumstance before she ever even had a chance.
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The drive took less than an hour, but when they arrived at their destination -- a shantytown on the outskirts of Tijuana -- Claussen couldn't believe her eyes.
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Thirty years ago, as a young reporter intent on documenting stories of poverty, the author moved in with a family living in a shantytown in Manila.
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The group set up a popup clinic in a shed off Cowpen Road, where a crowded Haitian shantytown has absorbed an unknown number of immigrant evacuees.
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In Villa 31, a populous shantytown neighborhood in the capital, Luli, 19, has gone through a year of treatment since contracting the disease while she was pregnant.
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She found work at a garment factory in Hlaingthaya, an industrial zone, and saved enough money to buy a one-room, bamboo house in a nearby shantytown.
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The Jungle, whose official name is the East Duwamish Greenbelt, has been around since the 1930s, when Seattle's Hooverville shantytown extended to the woods, KUOW-TV reported.
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Mayor Virginia Raggi wrote on Facebook that the shantytown, established in a former campground called Camping River on Rome&aposs northern periphery, was closed for hygiene reasons.
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Ambitiously allegorical, "Good Manners" dramatizes class and racial tensions in contemporary Brazil by creating contrasting worlds: rich and poor, black and white, high-rise chic and shantytown.
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The installation (which was reprised at Petzel in 2007 and Montreal's Musee d'art contemporain in 2010-183) is a sprawling shantytown, built from materials scavenged in Detroit.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, she took up residence in a plywood shantytown erected in Washington by the Poor People's Campaign, which he had organized.
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Todd Heisler, a staff photographer at The New York Times, has created a haunting photographic portrait of an auto repair shantytown using a 19th-century photographic technology.
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He bristled at attempts to bar military recruiting on campus, minimized the Iran-contra affair and dismissed a shantytown built on campus to protest South African apartheid.
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Up until last week, the shantytown — which is located near Porte de Clignancourt, in the north of the French capital — housed nearly 63 Roma and Romanian nationals.
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Up until last week, the shantytown — which is located near Porte de Clignancourt, in the north of the French capital — housed nearly 300 Roma and Romanian nationals.
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"El león de Caracas," soundtracked by a loud Catholic hymn, captures the strangely biblical moment of a taxidermied lion carried through a mountainous shantytown by military police.
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Dogs roam, scavenging for food in the Mudd, a shantytown community in Abaco, Bahamas, that was home to mostly Haitian migrants and was completely flattened by Hurricane Dorian.
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THE OP-13 BUILDING at the entrance to the Catia shantytown in Caracas is an ugly red and grey edifice, built a decade ago by a Russian company.
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Armed police fanned out around the squalid shantytown after a night during which small groups of migrants burned toilet blocks and hurled stones at security forces in protest.
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You make the two-minute trek from your dorm to Cameron Indoor Stadium, weaving through K-Ville, the sprawling shantytown that crops up every year outside the arena.
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MANILA — A fire raced through a squalid Manila shantytown teeming with people on Tuesday night, as residents armed only with buckets of water tried to fight the inferno.
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Instead, "The Kingmaker" chills the soul by presenting shantytown residents and school kids who extol the Marcos regime and even endorse its eight-year period of martial law.
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The deluge revived memories of 2005 floods that killed more than 500 people, the majority of them in shantytown slums where more than half the city's population lives.
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Her life, long joined unhappily with that of Boesman, another "colored" South African living under apartheid, has been a series of numbing treks from one shantytown to another.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's housing ministry said on Monday investment in a massive shantytown redevelopment project topped 1.37 trillion yuan ($197.64 billion) in the first three quarters of the year.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's housing ministry said on Monday investment in shantytown redevelopment projects totaled more than 600 billion yuan ($85.20 billion) in the first seven months of this year.
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Police were dispatched to the shantytown but were told that the Swedish tourists, who were not identified, had been released and had returned to their hotel in a taxi.
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People were often given financial compensation to buy existing homes in the city after their shantytown dwellings were dismantled, in part contributing to a price surge in smaller cities.
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Stripe and his fellow soldiers are sent to a shantytown in the midst of a forest, where the villagers' food supply has been pilfered and contaminated by these roaches.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's housing ministry said on Wednesday investment in a massive shantytown redevelopment project topped 1.5 trillion yuan ($215.88 billion) in the first ten months of the year.
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Authorities will continue to monitor local governments' financial position in shantytown redevelopment projects, and urge them to repay loans in a timely manner according to existing contracts, the ministry said.
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Squatters, homeless after a pre-earthquake housing crisis, have used high- and low-tech materials—tarps, plywood, aircraft cable—to turn its decks and towers into a cool suspended shantytown.
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Beyond the bloody floors of shantytown gyms and the wooden benches of dimly lit dressing rooms, Namman Muay is widely used by all sorts of normal, everyday folk. Athletes. Masseuses. Physiotherapists.
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The deluge revived memories of 2005 floods that killed more than 500 people, the majority of them in shantytown slums where more than half of the city's 20 million people live.
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The authorities said the teenager had been raped in the São João shantytown on the west side of Rio de Janeiro as she was visiting her boyfriend, The Associated Press reported.
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Samson Kersint, a 38-year-old who worked in a lumberyard and has been in the Bahamas since 1998, was among those who lost their homes in the dirt-path shantytown.
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BEIJING, Dec 14 (Reuters) - China's housing ministry said on Friday investment in a massive shantytown redevelopment project topped 1.6 trillion yuan ($231.8 billion) in the first 11 months of the year.
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"We would like to see the shacks that are preserved be used in commemoration of the river activities, which were always the focus of successive generations of Shantytown dwellers," he said.
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"The government is talking about solutions in the long and medium term, but the hunger is now," said Miguel González, the head of the community council at Maracaibo's Arco Iris shantytown.
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His novel "Solibo Magnifique" investigates the murder of a legendary raconteur, while the Prix Goncourt-winning "Texaco" tells Martinique's history through the epic origin story of a Fort-de-France shantytown.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China plans to dismantle 15 million shantytown homes during the period from 2018 to 2020, state radio said on Wednesday, citing a cabinet meeting led by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.
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What was a vertical shantytown is now a bright, clean shopping arcade bustling with small businesses—a nail salon, a bridal shop, a penis-enlargement clinic—along with floors of office space.
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Residents in the most vulnerable part of the slum, a low-lying shantytown called Deye Chabon, piled logs and garbage into barricades that kept the water from spilling into the narrow streets.
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He seeks refuge in a shabby amusement park, and finds it with Rahil (Yordanos Shiferaw), an African refugee who lives in a nearby shantytown with her toddler son, Jonas (Boluwatife Treasure Bankole).
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Memo From Bobigny BOBIGNY, France — After the shantytown he was living in burned to the ground, Slavi and his siblings slept in the trunk of a car for several weeks one winter.
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Eventually the residents were resettled to another area on the outskirts of Seoul, but faced eviction for the second time when it turned out their shantytown was located along the Olympic torch route.
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On the ragged streets of the shantytown across the road, where stinking outhouses sit alongside shacks fashioned from rusted sheets of tin, families have surrendered hopes that sewage lines will ever reach them.
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One of the most indelible images in Mr. Bloncourt's Portuguese portfolio is of a little girl holding a doll at a muddy shantytown in St. Denis, a northern suburb of Paris, in 1969.
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With the help of World Bicycle Relief, I was able to make contact with Abel, who moved to South Africa in 2012, and now lives in a shantytown in Lanseria, northwest of Johannesburg.
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Most in Belgrade, like Khan, have been pushed back numerous times, returning after each failed attempt to the shantytown – where they can meet more easily with people smugglers – to plan their next crossing.
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The director Penny Woolcock has sensitively updated the story from ancient Ceylon to an unspecified Asian country today, set in a coastal shantytown where villages both depend upon the sea and fear its power.
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La Perla is a shantytown of about 350 people built more than a century ago on a narrow strip of Atlantic shoreline between the crashing waves and the towering walls of Old San Juan.
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The record was inspired by his world travels, as well as his upbringing in Lisbon's now demolished shantytown Quinta da Vitória, where he came of age amongst immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Cabo Verde.
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Too mortified to take up the family profession and also unwilling to return to his "shantytown" existence in Baguio City, he has come to the United States with a different spiritual cure in mind.
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But all these methods have a significant margin of error and fail to account for racial biases, not to mention the toll that living in a shantytown might take on one's skin-care regimen.
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His work is essentially the application of giant photographs, on paper or other materials, to various types of urban surfaces — roads, decaying buildings in Beirut, the West Bank Wall, corrugated rooftops in a Kenyan shantytown.
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The "home" of this piece is based on the artist's own childhood home in the squatter shantytown of Colonia Ajusco south of Mexico City, built upon a volcanic stone plateau that community planners deemed inhabitable.
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In the debate over where to place the great park, however, uptown landowners and newspapers painted the village as a shantytown at risk of becoming the next Five Points, occasionally describing it with racial slurs.
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Indeed, the memorial here draws deliberate and uncomfortable parallels between France's past and present situation, in places like the northern city of Calais, where thousands of migrants live in a semipermanent shantytown known as the Jungle.
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Commonly known as the "Jungle," the camp was a sprawling shantytown that was, at the time of its demolition in October 2016, a precarious home to more than 8,000 refugees and asylum seekers in northern France.
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ABACO, Bahamas (AP) — Lugging empty suitcases, plastic buckets and backpacks, dazed survivors of Hurricane Dorian made their way back to the shantytown where they used to live, hoping to gather up some of their soggy belongings.
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Mr. Williams assumes that when shantytown residents cheer for the abalone poachers, it's to celebrate their escape from the police, but you may wonder whether they were just responding to the presence of a camera crew.
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As the sun set in the shantytown of La Perla in Old San Juan, Ramón Marrero, 79, slumped onto the unwashed cot inside his brother's tool shed, where he had lived since Maria claimed his home.
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She chose an area in the outskirts called Tor Fiscale, then a shantytown inhabited mostly by postwar refugees, some living in makeshift homes in the arcades of the ancient Roman aqueducts that still crisscross the countryside there.
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LILLE, France (Reuters) - A French judge deferred a ruling on Tuesday on a government plan to partially demolish a shantytown outside Calais for migrants trying to reach Britain, in response to an appeal by activists and residents.
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To fend off risks in economically more vulnerable small cities, Beijing also slashed its shantytown redevelopment target for 2019, which was responsible for significant frontloading of property demand in tier-3 and tier-4 cities in 2018.
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Sitha Silene, 34, who lost her home and several relatives in the Pigeon Peas shantytown of Marsh Harbour, described difficult conditions inside the tents, where she said hundreds of people were piled together, sleeping on air beds.
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Sitha Silene, 34, who lost her home and several relatives in the Pigeon Peas shantytown of Marsh Harbour, described difficult conditions inside the tents, where she said hundreds of people were piled together, sleeping on air beds.
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The tightening of the financial compensation policy under the shantytown redevelopment projects came as Beijing expands moves to contain local government debt this year during a multi-year risk crackdown that's started to weigh on economic activity.
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This latest miserable shantytown, containing as many as 2000,21 migrants, is made up of a cluster of abandoned railway warehouses in central Belgrade, Serbia, where hundreds of men and children sleep rough behind the city's bus depot.
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This latest miserable shantytown, containing as many as 218,93 migrants, is made up of a cluster of abandoned railway warehouses in central Belgrade, Serbia, where hundreds of men and children sleep rough behind the city's bus depot.
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An adaptation of Joseph Zobel's novel, the film is set in the sugar cane fields of a shantytown on the Franco-Caribbean island Martinique, where Jose, a bright young pupil, lives with his stern but loving grandmother Amantine.
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Li said in the work report that China plans to revamp 5.8 million shantytown homes in 2018, after investing a total of 1.84 trillion yuan ($290.6 billion) to upgrade more than 6 million homes in the previous year.
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In the shortest story, thousands of people build a shantytown in the course of a single moonless night; in the longest, a city boy and his father behave arrogantly in front of friends in their old home town.
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On a walkabout in an unpaved shantytown on the outskirts of Barinas city, Superlano told Reuters government candidates were using helicopters to campaign while he and other opposition aspirants spent hours on the road to reach remote communities.
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In the case of Slavi, whose surname name is being withheld because he is a minor, the director of Marie Curie, Véronique Decker, and the school's teachers stepped in to help after his shantytown burned down in 2014.
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There are nefarious happenings aplenty, involving a violent sports agent, a woman who runs a brothel and AfricTown (the black shantytown), a prime minister who is evil incarnate, and a schoolboy who films everything by hiding in various closets.
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She hemorrhaged severely during the delivery at home, in a small, isolated shantytown, and had to be carried to a pickup truck and then driven to the emergency room, where the 18-year-old was hospitalized for six days.
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Before it was demolished in 2016, the shantytown had become a symbol of Europe's difficulty in dealing with the migrant crisis which saw millions of people arrive in Europe fleeing poverty and conflicts in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
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On the evening of November 18th a fire broke out at a warehouse-cum-apartment block in a shantytown in southern Beijing populated by migrants—poor workers from rural areas of China whom district officials sometimes call "low-end people".
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NOIDA, India — The madams in the luxury gated community went to yoga classes and toddler playgroups; the maids soundlessly whisked away dirty dishes and soiled laundry before retreating, at night, to a nearby shantytown of tin sheds and plastic tents.
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As Brian Otieno was waiting to start college six years ago, he spent his days snapping pictures with his phone as he wandered the unpaved streets and alleyways of Kibera, a sprawling shantytown on the outskirts of Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
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Residents of Rio's City of God slum, where judoka Rafaela Silva was born and raised before winning Brazil's first gold medal at these Games, spoke of their pride and hope that her triumph would help break the stigma that sticks to shantytown residents.
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When Aira wrote Birthday, he was also coming off a string of some of his most fantastical novels: Shantytown, The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira, and The Literary Conference, to name a few, where dreamlike states and the supernatural were the structuring logic.
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The people of Petare — Latin America's most heavily populated shantytown, with 1.2 million inhabitants — joined the protests on April 20, when they met violent repression and clouds of tear gas extending the length of Caracas's main traffic artery, the Autopista del Este.
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Reuters reported last month that CDB had halted funding for new shantytown redevelopment projects, according to a source, and had transferred approval authority from local branches back to the bank's headquarters due to concerns about risks associated with rising local government debt.
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"People say her father was autocratic, but I think we should give her a chance," said Yolanda Reyes, a 28-year-old food vendor in a Lima shantytown who is one of a growing number of voters too young to remember well Alberto Fujimori's rule.
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Based in Brazzaville, the shantytown capital of the Republic of Congo, the sapeurs have long performed a deft act of reverse colonization, appropriating the elegant duds and status markers of European high style to disport themselves through the dusty city in all their finery.
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To lure builders and buyers, the local government moved wig-making businesses to the city's fringes, spent tens of billions of yuan demolishing shantytown homes, and built a series of lakes and parks, including a gigantic "Central Park" modeled on the one in Manhattan.
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Rio de Janeiro is the most violent host city to date—a statistic tragically illustrated on August 11th when a national guardsman died in hospital after being shot by drug traffickers the previous night when his vehicle took a wrong turn and entered a lawless favela (shantytown).
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" Later, they flee to Mortville, a kind of shantytown haven for criminals and other social and sexual outcasts, and the long-suffering Grizelda boils over, setting Peggy straight about their predicament: "We killed your husband, and I ain't your maid anymore, bitch, I'm your sister in crime!
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Banks that make loans to support national policy, including the China Development Bank (CDB), will not offer any this year to compensate home-dwellers for new shantytown rebuilding projects in cities where inventories are low and home prices high, the ministry said in a statement to Reuters.
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There were also migrants living in Calais who had previously been moved to alternative centers in France, but had found the conditions there so bad that they had decided to return to the Jungle, even though it is little more than a shantytown with only the most basic facilities.
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In places like Philippi or Khayelitsha, the largest black shantytown about 30 km (18 miles) from the city center, tens of thousands of people live cheek by jowl in a squalid sea of shacks — unnumbered homes on nameless streets that are perfect for criminals and a nightmare for police.
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After the collapse of the Fyre Festival in late April, when young music fans who had paid for a luxurious musical getaway and instead arrived to find a shantytown of tents on a darkened beach, Mr. McFarland hired a legal team to defend him against more than a dozen civil lawsuits.
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Sylvain Mathieu, a delegate for the illicit encampment and shantytown division of the Interministerial Delegation for Accommodation and Access to Housing, pointed out that while French authorities were allowed to evict the Roma from camps for safety and sanitary reasons, they were obliged to offer solutions for housing, schooling, employment and health.
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The Cantagalo shantytown community next to neighboring Pavao-Pavaozinho in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 21, 2003Photo: GettyNew data reveals the global circulation of stolen identities is leading to major shifts in cybercrime worldwide, with developing countries cultivating newly formed internet-based economies responsible for a generous amount of fake and stolen account activity.
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" By high school, Mr. Noah writes, he had become an enterprising businessman, copying and selling pirated CDs; he and his business partners would soon segue into the D.J. business, throwing raucous dance parties in Alexandra, "a tiny, dense pocket of a shantytown," known as Gomorrah because it had "the wildest parties and the worst crimes.
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Paul discovers a shantytown on the rim of Leisureland, where the tiny poor have established their own community; they strike him as less phony than the gated set among whom he resides, and he finds himself, pretty much by accident, becoming a dogsbody to Ngoc Lan Tran (Hong Chau), a young Vietnamese woman with a wooden leg.
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It is a journey that ricochets from various troubled homes, including a two-traffic-light trailer-park town in rural Virginia, to the nightmarish DeJarnette Center, to a dilapidated shack in a drug- and-crime-addled shantytown, and eventually to the cutthroat finals of the National Council Auditions at the Metropolitan Opera, a talent search open to any singer between the ages of 20 and 30.
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