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Example sentences for: slum

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These inhabitants of what Joan Didion was to call “America’s first teenage slum” dispensed a vision of love, peace, and light, heavily laced with marijuana and more dangerous drugs, such as LSD.
And many of her clients had medical problems from living in slum housing such as cockroaches lodged in ear canals and rat bite fever, a nonfatal malady that particularly affects children.
She was about to run out of means to pay back those loans when she took a job at the Inner City Law Center in Los Angeles, a firm that fights slum landlords.
In a transformation no less dramatic than the Harbourfront, the hippy slum of the 1960s has been refurbished into a chic neighborhood of fashionable boutiques, art galleries, sidewalk cafés, gourmet restaurants, and colorfully repainted old houses.
Before the Revolution, royal officials and other wealthy folk lived here, but in the 19th century it became a crowded slum as immigrants — Irish, Jewish, Portuguese, and Italian — poured into the district.