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Micro homes able to upgrade slums and delay Bangkok’s gentrification plans Charity project aims to rebuild dilapidated homes, which could halt redevelopment of the Klong Toey slum 23 May 2021 - 07:10 Rina Chandran Picture: 123RF/ANDRII YALANSKYI
Bangkok 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.
That is 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.
By Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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BANGKOK, May 21 (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.
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.
“We were living in broken houses and were unable to afford to repair the houses,” Krabsomboon told the Thomson Reuters Foundation from his home in the city’s oldest slum.
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
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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.