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
That night Bill Howard was conservative in recounting the big news-story of the "slum clearance."
From Prologue to an Analogue by Leigh Richmond
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