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Squatting in Bangladesh

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on the periphery of Dhaka rather than going home. These are known as "bastees". At the time this was the only available option since there was already a housing deficit of 47,195 units and little option to rent, except in the innercity
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had a population of just over 1.5 million, of which there were an estimated 66,676 squatters living in 69 areas. As of 2013, almost 35 per cent of Bangladesh's urban population lived in informal settlements. In
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has resulted from factors such as migration from rural areas to urban ones, the lack of affordable housing, bad governance and natural disasters. As well as informal settlements on the ground, there are
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and boat squatters. There are also rural squatters who make land grabs.
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Roy, Manoj; Hulme, David; Jahan, Ferdous (April 2013).
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known as "bastees" on the periphery of cities such as
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Index

Country marked in green
Shacks built above water
shanty town
Dhaka
People looking at camera, shacks behind them
Mymensingh Division
squatters
informal settlements
Chittagong
Dhaka
Khulna
Bangladesh
Squatting
Bangladesh
Mughal Empire
Partition of Bengal
East Pakistan
Bangladesh Liberation War
rooftop slums
Bangladesh famine of 1974
Dhaka
informal settlements
slums
Demra
Mirpur
Tongi
Chittagong
Khulna

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