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
Urban renewal bulldozed hotel districts as a slum clearance policy that minimized, on paper, its disruptive impact: Hotels weren’t counted as housing, Groth wrote, so displaced hotel occupants weren’t counted as displaced residents.
From Slate • Jul. 17, 2022
Faced with widespread displacement of poor people during the redevelopment of Bunker Hill's Victorian boarding houses, the city rejected slum clearance of skid row.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2019
A few blocks away, a huge swath of many blocks of housing was cleared in the name of "slum clearance".
From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2018
That night Bill Howard was conservative in recounting the big news-story of the "slum clearance."
From Prologue to an Analogue by Richmond, Leigh
