Containing coronavirus hotspots in sprawling city slums has been made harder by a dearth of reliable data, urban experts said on Wednesday, calling for more extensive mapping and surveys to help ...

As those communities were cleared, some gang members fled to Alemão, a violent, sprawling slum complex with some 100,000 residents that the city’s police chief, José Mariano Beltrame, called ...

The report says that the worldwide number of slum dwellers increased by 36 percent in the 1990s to 923 million people. At its current pace, the number could double to 2 billion by 2030.

(9) Dayton Ohio had a 9.9% increase in slum population, and it's all because of poverty in the city. Brookings (8) There was 10.5% increase in slums of the Poughkeepsie area, mostly in the suburbs.

Lack of data on urban slums is making it harder to track the coronavirus, ... Tackling coronavirus hotspots in city slums hindered by lack of data. ... "You cannot monitor what you haven't measured.