Question

3. What is a slum? What are the problems faced by people who live in slums?
​

Answer 1

Answer:

$\huge{\green}\fcolorbox{yellow}{b}{\underline{\color{yellow}{Answer}}}$

The characteristic features of the slum areas are substandard, dingy houses of high density and congestion, overcrowding, insanitary conditions, absence of basic amenities like water supply, drainage and sewerage and disposal of garbage.

Answer 2

Answer:

Generally speaking, they are characterized by a high rate of urban decay, poverty, unemployment, and illiteracy. Social problems seem to be out of control. Crime, drug abuse, alcoholism, mental illness, and suicide are part of the lives and landscape of slum areas.