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Example sentences for: slums

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This park, founded in 1865, has been called “the lungs of Amsterdam” and was founded after a number of philanthropic city fathers decided that there was a need for a genteel recreation area for the city’s population, many of whom lived in overcrowded slums.
Rich patrons flock to faux blues clubs on the yuppie North Side, while authentic blues men are left audienceless in the slums.
But these vouchers can't be the kind conservatives prefer, which are sharply limited in value so as to forestall real integration while directing tenants toward private-sector slums.
Escobar claimed to have been conducting a war on behalf of the Colombian slums, avenging the brutality of the police with still more brutality of his own, and we can see that, in a perverse way, he did feel something of a righteous indignation.
The district to the south of Market Street was once an area of slums, warehouses, and railroad yards, but redevelopment combined with low rents have gentrified the area.