Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
When tragedy strikes, the poor suffer first. When violence breaks out, the poor suffer most.
Riots are so depressing, I think, because they are the poor expressing rage and the immediate effect of their rage is to make themselves poorer — by destroying what the poor have.
Such a spectacle appears to be gripping Kenya [...]
Something potentially remarkable is happening in Kenya right now, and it’s happening because of slums, or more precisely Kibera, Africa’s largest slum. Kibera’s residents, long ignored in economic and policy terms, may just decide Kenya’s next president. As reported last week in the Boston Globe:
In Kenya, presidential race could hinge on voters in slum
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