Robert Neuwrith, the author of the stupendous Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World has a blog where he documents his ongoing research on squatter cities.
Consider this: "As police in full riot gear moved in to torch shacks using petrol, many residents tore down their own homes to salvage some of the building materials." Victoria Muchenje, whose shack in Mbare, a densely populated township just outside Harare, was destroyed in the government pogrom, told the IWPR, "We are suffering, we have nowhere to go. Our children are not going to school, we are sleeping outside everywhere. If you walk, everywhere you see people sleeping in the road."
(Thanks, Simone!)
