What is difference between squatter and …

Squatter Settlement

Slums Settlement

1. Squatter settlements are residential area in an urban locality inhabited by the very poor.

1. Slums are residential areas which are socially as well physically deteriorated.

2. Such people do not have any access to tenured land of their own therefore they squat on vacant land may be either private property.

2. In such areas satisfactory family life is impossible.

3. Nature of such settlement and their names vary from one country to another.

3. Major recognition of a slum is that the condition of housing is extremly bad.

4. In different countries they are known by different local names such as Ranchos in Venezuela, Favelas in Brazil and Bustee or Jhuggi and Jhopri in India.

4. Dwellings in slums have inadequate light, air, toilet and bathing facilities.

5. A squatter settlement because of its non-legal status has services and infrastructure below the minimum level.

5. Dwellings are damp in bad repair and people do not afford opportunity of family privacy.

6. Most of the squatter households are socially backward and belong to lower income group. Most migrants squatter settlements lack land ownership.

6. Slums are often subject to fire hazard. They are overcrowded that there is no space for recreational use.