Poverty, Informal Settlements, and Urban Security

Slum and informal settlements provide the low-cost and only affordable housing, and lowincome employees for the urban poor, therefore is seen as a solution. But they holder of the problems that are threatening the sustainability of cities. Urban security has a strong linkage with the issue of informal settlements. In this paper with descriptive method, reviews literature and statistics and information, has investigated various aspects of connection between slums and urban security. Security of tenure, poverty, natural and human disaster, urban violence and riots are important problems that have relation with security and slums. Second and third generations live now in the slums that have different aspirations and needs of their fathers. In these conditions, absence of proper supply and Lack of attention to the social justice will create problems for the city and urban security. This paper has emphasized that As long as there is poverty, relative deprivation and ethnic disparities, insecurity in both, the slums and the city will ever wider.