slums
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Cooking with firewood or coal is unsafe in cramped rooms in slums.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
Karachi has several Bengali neighbourhoods, mainly slums, which residents say have housed Bengalis since before East Pakistan became Bangladesh.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
Relating his journey to becoming a visual storyteller, Thomas recalled growing up in “one of the worst slums of Philadelphia,” sitting on his front stoop reading Shakespeare, James Baldwin and Tennessee Williams, immersed and transported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025
The wonderful century also saw the plunder of the Earth’s resources, suffering in urban slums and humanitarian catastrophe in Europe’s colonies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
They had stopped the spread of MDR in the slums of Lima, and now they would do the same for other parts of Peru.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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