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

By the 1950s, the nation was entering an era of urban renewal and slum clearance subsidized by the federal government.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 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

If he were married and had a dependent wife and children he might get architectural work in a government slum clearance project.

From Class of '29 by Lashin, Orrie