and slum-dwellers, of Mumbai bedraggled in the deluge. California’s homeless crisis this wet winter bears some similarities. As I’ve written about before, city governments and law enforcement ...

Known for its riches, California now has more and more patches of grinding poverty. The United Nations has compared the state’s growing homeless camps to the slums of Pakistan, Brazil and Mexico.

The Dharavi slum in Mumbai has 400 recycling units and 30,000 ragpickers ... According to a 2008 study from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, if the world’s 100 largest cities ...