Favela ( Brazilian Portuguese ) , bairro de lata ( European Portuguese ) ou musseque ( Portuguese Angola ), as defined by the agency of the United Nations UN-HABITAT, is a neglected area of a given city characterized by substandard housing, lack of infrastructure and without regularization. According to data from the UN , about one billion people live in slums in the world. These regions, urban areas have low quality of life , infrastructure and its poor residents have limited purchasing power - areas with inadequate buildings, often tight the hills where it is difficult to construct buildings with materials and stable traditional .
The term has traditionally referred to housing areas that have been respectable, but which deteriorated as the original inhabitants were displaced to new and better parts of town, but the term is also applied to the vast informal settlements found in cities of the developing world and developing .
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