slums
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Shortly after she arrived, more than 100,000 people were evicted from slums on the Yamuna River.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
He left a peerless catalogue of songs articulating the life of working class Irish immigrants, with tales of finding love in the slums littered with references to literature, mythology and the Bible.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026
Like other reformers, including Catherine Bauer and Edith Elmer Wood, Simkhovitch saw slums through the narrow prism of their deplorable physical conditions, such as overcrowding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 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
Nailer had expected Nita’s prissy distaste for the slums of the Orleans to continue, but she adapted quickly, with a fierce attention to whatever Tool and Nailer taught.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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