India: Delhi's Army of Homeless by Stuart Freedman (37 images)

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By conservative estimates, Delhi has a homeless population of around 100,000 people. The city, once a sleepy bureaucratic backwater compared to glittery Mumbai, is now an island of ostentatious wealth floating on a sea of medieval squalor. Slum clearances jar with an astronomic and ever-rising real-estate prices.

Constant migration has put huge strain on the city's limited housing and ever increasing numbers of migrant labourers compete for a limited number of jobs and space....
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