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slum
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slum

A heavily populated urban area with widespread and massive deterioration of buildings and infrastructure, a lack of meaningful social or police services, and an exceptionally high degree of poverty,unemployment,and crime.
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Then there came a second great wave in the 1950s and 60s as old slum housing and back -to-backs were cleared out and estates such as Newtown replaced them.
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Seven sites earmarked for slum clearance PLANS were being drawn up for the redevelopment of seven sites in the centre of Stockton which were to be cleared of slum housing.
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Without identities, the vast population of undocumented people leads to sweatshops, slum housing conditions and many other problems.
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