Imagine standing in the centre of a small triangular plot in a city built of grey, crumbling concrete. You are staring into a hole in the ground filled with black water. A three storey adobe-like brick wall of a neighbouring building is overhanging the property line about two feet. You are anxiously eying the masonry anchors that keep it from top- pling over. It is winter and the brambles clinging to it offer no foliage to cover the generous helping of candy wrappers on the ground.
Lack of housing leads to the unregulated construction of these dwellings on the perimeter of the cities. This woman, her two children and her husband live in this 2.5x2.5m dwelling without water or sanitation.
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