slum clearance
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Promoting slum clearance and clean water while preventing adulterated food addressed popular grievances while offering competent, uncontroversial government.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Shots of slums and slum clearance provide a metaphor for the creation of a new society and a new consciousness.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
But there was also a great deal of demolition, largely due to slum clearance, which made the overall figure just under 200,000 a year.
From BBC ● May 11, 2022
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
That night Bill Howard was conservative in recounting the big news-story of the "slum clearance."
From Prologue to an Analogue by Leigh Richmond
