How An Abandoned Skyscraper Became 'The World's Tallest Slum'

The Tower of David was supposed to be a 45-story skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela. But after an economic collapse and the death of the man who commissioned it in the 1990s, the tower went unfinished and uninhabited, just an incomplete shell, until 2007, when the city's homeless began moving in. They formed a community inside, allocating space for homes, grocery stores, and even a barber. But it wasn't pretty. The tower has frequently been called the "world's tallest slum." This year, in a New Yo...