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 1960s, many of the original buildings, including Loudoun Square, were demolished as part of slum clearance projects.
From BBC • May 24, 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
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
First, to enable the United States Housing Authority to undertake the immediate construction of about three hundred million dollars of additional slum clearance projects.
From The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
