Given environmental and health considerations, the government authorities need to limit the number of people who live in the slums. Their growth cannot be allowed to continue unfettered because this would create dangerous levels of overcrowding in areas that are already at incendiary levels. When a large number of people are concentrated in small spaces, the chances of adverse events like a disease outbreak, or riots are greatly amplified. This kind of unjust confinement to small spaces pushes people to extremes and greatly harms the individual quality of life. It is not just a violation of the basic rights of people by not providing them with decent housing, but also a grave threat to the health and wellbeing of the citizens. The government should improve the conditions of the slums and ensure that neighborhoods outside of slum …show more content…
Zoning laws that encourage segregation need to be modified and non-profit organizations should be encouraged to build low-cost housing. To assist people to move out of slums all racial barriers in employment, housing and education need to be eliminated so that minorities have the alternative to move out of slum areas. The key is to open up the suburbs for the federal government housing programs to construct low-income housing. To make the effort productive, it is critical that people be given housing in non-slum areas outside the central city. Urban centers are getting overcrowded, and urban renewal is needed. It is grave social injustice for city governments to provide substandard city services like police protection, trash collection, and street cleaning, to slum dwellers. The policies of the Federal Housing Administration have led to high-income people moving to the suburbs, leaving the poor and disadvantaged in the inner city. To ensure basic human rights, slum dwellers should be integrated with other neighborhoods in the suburbs and provided access to good schools and health facilities. This is the key to building a