Multiple localities in Karachi are home to multi-storey buildings erected on a small patch of land, usually housing an upward of ten people per floor. While poverty and the ever-increasing inability of underprivileged families to invest in housing force people to flock to such abodes, sometimes six to twelve stories tall, their helplessness becomes an inevitable calamity not only for themselves but for entire neighbourhoods.

Fresh efforts to eliminate such buildings have been underway since........

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