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

She didn’t want anyone to know she had come from the slums.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith