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Example sentences for: slums

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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.
Movie-- The Slums of Beverly Hills ;
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.