Huts are vernacular architecture in that they are built of readily available materials such as wood, snow, ice, stone, grass, palm leaves, branches, hides, fabric, and or mud using techniques passed down through the generations.

Indicators 17 ( Proportion of births attended by skilled health ) and 32 ( Slums ) are not at all relevant in Finland.

The additional battalion would be deployed to enhance the capacity of MINUSTAH to address gang violence in the critical shantytown of Port au Prince, Cité Soleil.

The aim of the UPP strategy is to place permanent police units in favelas (shanty towns) to tackle crime and promote social policies.

Since December 2008, 18 different favelas out of almost 1,000 in the capital city of Rio have received UPPs.

The tense security environment in Port au Prince, in particular in the shantytowns, continued to hamper the work of humanitarian organizations and required coordination of activities between MINUSTAH and the aid community.

Addressing more specifically the issue of evictions, the observer indicated that the shanty settlements had been illegally erected in areas reserved for urban development and announcements had been made that they would be subject to demolition in case of need.

On November 1, 2001, American planes bombed Ishaq Suleiman, a group of mud huts, because a Taliban truck had been parked in one of the streets.

It's about three miles out of Nairobi, and it's a mile long and about two tenths of a mile wide, where over half a million people live crammed in these little tin shacks, generation after generation, renting them, often eight or 10 people to a room.

According to Rafael Nunes in an article for Agência de Notícias das Favelas (Favela s Agency Press) the state s strategy is to promote law enforcement together with private activities and services, and these measures have already affected residents

(g) The persistence of inadequate housing in the form of cage homes and bed space apartments, despite measures taken by HKSAR to provide alternative housing to residents who choose to remain in such homes.