Bangkok's micro homes: a model for slum dwelling in COVID-19?

>> Thomson Reuters Foundation, The New York Times
Published: 21 May 2021 04:56 PM BdST
Updated: 21 May 2021 04:56 PM BdST
Small homes, funded by a charity and designed by a leading architect, have helped residents brave a surge of the coronavirus pandemic in the Klong Toey slum in Bangkok, Thailand. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION
Flimsy shacks of tin and ply have given way to sleek, painted newbuilds - small, clean and leak-free - in Bangkok's biggest slum, creating model homes and a blueprint for city development.
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That's if community leader Surawat Krabsomboon and other residents can defeat plans to bulldoze much of Klong Toey slum and make way for the sort of gentrification transforming the Thai capital.

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