Description : Pavement dwellers living in tents made of plastic, in Osmany Uddyan. Later, these people had to leave the park as government leased it to a private organization in 2006. Dhaka, Bangladesh. A large number of people from the rural areas migrate to the big cities in search of a living due to poverty, landlessness caused by river erosion, desertification, flood and other natural disasters. As they cannot afford even a scanty accommodation, they make the streets, pavements, parks and open areas their dwelling and become the pavement dwellers.