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How these slum dwellers went from one-room shacks to beautiful new apartments

It's a bold new experiment and it's already won a prize. Residents in a jam-packed slum, many of them living in one-room tin shacks, help design their apartments in a brand new building.

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Residents in a jam-packed slum, many of them living in one-room tin shacks, help design their apartments in a brand new building. Pooja Gawali used to live in a one-room home with no indoor plumbing. The lack of privacy in her home meant that she always had to always be on alertconscious of how she sat or behaved. That's not uncommon in Sanjaynagar, a crowded slum in the western Indian state of Maharashtra where she lives. In 2022, she moved into an apartment on the second floor of a newly constructed three-story building with 33 units that houses not just her own family but 30 other families from her slum neighborhood. One brother-in-law lives in the apartment below hers; the other in one above. When their home was being built, the family had a requestthey wanted their apartments to be connected through an inner flight of stairs. "It's a joy to be able to live freely.

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living in one-room tin shacksCollocation

อาศัยอยู่ในตู้กระบอก 1 ห้อง.

From the storyResidents in a jam-packed slum, many of them living in one-room tin shacks, help design their apartments in a brand new building.

used to live in aCollocation

ใช้ชีวิตใน.

From the storyPooja Gawali used to live in a one-room home with no indoor plumbing.

had to always be onCollocation

ต้องเปิดตลอดเวลา.

From the storyThe lack of privacy in her home meant that she always had to always be on alert — conscious of how she sat or behaved.

crowded slum in the westernCollocation

สถานที่หุ่นวายที่เต็มไปด้วยคนในตะวันตก.

From the storyThat's not uncommon in Sanjaynagar, a crowded slum in the western Indian state of Maharashtra where she lives.

moved into an apartment onCollocation

สถานที่อยู่.

From the storyIn 2022, she moved into an apartment on the second floor of a newly constructed three-story building with 33 units that houses not just her own family but 30 other families from her slum neighborhood.

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