But the law did not provide the new beginning for urban slum dwellers that some had hoped; few such families had the resources to start farming, even on free land.

不过，这部法律并未像某些人希望的那样，成为产生城市贫民窟的新开端，即使在免费获得的土地上也很少有家庭拥有开始耕作的资源。

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Progress in meeting these challenges would be shown by a fall in the proportion of slum-dwellers, who currently account for 70% of urban inhabitants.

应对这些挑战所取得的进展将从难民比例下降中体现出来，目前难民占城市居住人口的70%。

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In the Brazilian capital of Brasilia, for instance, the sprawling urban center was designed for easy car transport but now teems with slum dwellers too poor to afford even bicycles.

在巴西首都巴西利亚，最初为缓解汽车交通而不断拓展的市中心区现在却到处都是连自行车都买不起的贫民。

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"We need to encourage the informal settlers, the slum dwellers, to invest into this infrastructure themselves, " says Keller.

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As Columbia University's Elliott Sclar, lead author of the UN's 2005 Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers, observes, "secure tenure" would make it easier for slum dwellers to join the formal labor force, knowing that they aren't at risk of arbitrarily being forced from their homes and that their possessions will still be there when they come home from work.

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According to the UN, Addis has one of the higher densities of slum dwellers in the world.

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