The government's current program tries to deal with the area's problems by offering housing areas with good sanitation (generally in the form of multi- storey houses). Law No. 1 of 2011 concerning Settlements Settlements are diseases that are not suitable for habitation, among others, because they are located on land that is not in accordance with the designation or spatial planning, high building density in a very limited area, social vulnerability and environmental diseases, so that the problem formulated in this article is (1). How to mitigate the growth of settlements in densely populated areas and (2). How the conditions of economic vitality and the status of land ownership and handling priorities affect an area to be implemented. From the deepening of the mitigation literature of Kumu settlement. Therefore, the Central Government has issued various programs and policies to conduct this research. One of the programs launched by the Central Government through the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing is the "City Without Slums" Program or commonly abbreviated as the CWS Program. To conduct this research aims to use criteria. The determination of the area is carried out by considering various aspects or dimensions such as adjusting the location to the spatial plan, land status, location/position of the location, population density level, building density level, physical, social, economic and cultural conditions of the local community.Keywords: Mitigation, Slums, and Densely Populated Areas