1. Planet of Slums Olivia Vazquez

3. The first definition was in before the 1800’s was that a slum was a place where criminal trade occurred.

4. That definition was not sufficient because crime occurred everywhere.

6. UN-HABITAT has studied the population of slums and found the world’s highest percentages of slum-dwellers are in Ethiopia.

7. 99.4% of Ethiopian population live in slums.

8. Next to Ethiopia the highest number of populated slums are Chad (99.4%), Afghanistan(98.5%), and Nepal (92%)

10. There 2/3 or more of residents earn less than the cost of their minimum required daily nutrition.

11. In Luanda, one quarter of the households have consumptions of less than 75 cents per day.

13. Half of the region's non-white population lives in informal settlements in toxic waste and chronic ground collapse.

14. In Caracas, slums housing almost 2/3 of the population and homes are built on unstable hillsides and in deep gorges.

16. Fires are due to the mixture of inflammable dwellings extraordinary density, and dependence upon open fires for heat and cooking.

17. Most of the fires that happen in the slums are not accidents.

18. Many fires happen as an order by landlords, who would rather demolish the slums easily by starting a fire