slum clearance

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One of those counterproductive policies was slum clearance, which paved the way for public housing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

In the slum clearance programme after World War Two, her grandparents were relocated to Essex, along with thousands of other people living in dilapidated two-up, two-down Victorian houses who moved out of the capital.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2023

Cholera outbreaks in Paris led to widespread slum clearance, including the famous Haussmann-led urban renewal undertaken in the 1850s that gave us the city’s famous and spacious boulevards.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2021

There would be more money for the WPA and the CCC, and hundreds of millions for slum clearance, public works, highway construction, and flood control.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2020

First, to enable the United States Housing Authority to undertake the immediate construction of about three hundred million dollars of additional slum clearance projects.

From The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Roosevelt, Franklin Delano