slum

ENVO:01000653 ·resolve ·ENGINEERED ·EXACT REVIEWED

A slum is a heavily populated urban informal settlement with substandard housing in which households lack any one of the following: access to improved water, access to improved sanitation, sufficient-living area, durability of housing, or security of tenure. — ENVO

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Engineered > Wastewater > Urban wastewater > Slums/Informal settlements 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	—

Broader habitats

dense settlement ENVO:01000658
Urban wastewater habitatmech:GOLD.d8d3393339

Also called

Slums/Informal settlements — GOLD

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to ENVO:01000653 'slum' (EXACT). Slash alternative naming one thing; grounded to the head term. Pulled out of the class-level sweep, whose note wrongly claimed no term matched. Label: 'Slums/Informal settlements'. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.765d4bdada)

Provenance

Generated by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record.