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Key Facts About Urbanization        

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Millions of people in cities are living in desperate conditions.

Many of the people who move from villages to towns live in the worst areas of cities - in slums, where they are forced to stay in cheap, self-made houses of mud and corrugated iron sheets. Many others are homeless and have to survive without basic facilities such as water or toilets. In Kibera, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, there is only one toilet for every 150 inhabitants.

 
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