Under Cover Of Covid, India’s Poor Are Homeless

'Early on 9 May 2020, as the world stayed home to stay safe from the Covid-19 pandemic, the residents of Ratahara neighbourhood in central India’s Rewa city woke up to a loudspeaker telling them to leave their homes. They had one hour before their homes would be demolished, a man was saying on the loudspeaker. The homes, stood on public land next to the Ratahara lake, and the government wanted the land for a “lake-beautification project”, which includes lakeside promenades and gardens.The 103 families in the low-income settlement rushed to pack up their belongings from their one-room homes of brick and tin sheet...'