A solution in Bangkok to house the homeless - 1/2 billion in slums

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Over half a billion Asians live in slums and this may double by 2030, so an answer to the region's housing problems is welcome


REUTERS , BANGKOK
Wednesday, Mar 24, 2004,Page 16

When flames swept through the chipboard and corrugated iron of Bangkok's Bonkai slum two years ago, 50-year-old Kai Pongsongsee and her son clutched their most expensive possession and dashed for the street.

The color television, saved by the family's passion for kick boxing, now sits in Kai's new two-story concrete house in a building project hailed as a model for housing the poor in Asia.

Just over half a billion Asians live in slums and the UN expects the number to double by 2030 because of rapid population growth and urbanization.

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