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slum

a squalid section of a city, characterized by inferior living conditions and usually by overcrowding
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Slum

An overcrowded, dirty, neglected, unhygienic area of decaying buildings normally inhabited by economically disadvantaged people.
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slum

An area within a city characterized by deteriorated buildings, unsanitary conditions, and high population densities.
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Whereas promises to rehouse the slum dwellers were once dismissed as a merely a bad joke, today there is guarded optimism.
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The population of slum dwellers in some of the world's largest cities--Bombay, Bogota, and Cairo, for example--now outnumbers the population of people living in formal housing.
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Slum dwellers have monopolised the lowly activity of earning money from garbage collection.
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Cuttack, June 14 ( ANI ): A slum eviction drive turned violent here after police resorted to baton charge on slum dwellers.
Slum eviction drive turns violent in Cuttack
Kolkata, Apr 9 ( ANI ): Slum dwellers in Kolkata staged a protest on Monday against the police baton charge.
Slum dwellers in Kolkata protest against police baton charge
Apparently, we will use all these sites to accommodate a maximum number of slum dwellers.'
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They said sanitation system is a big problem in the slum areas and good sanitation system should be created for slum dwellers in cities.
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ISLAMABAD -- Prime Minister Imran Khan Monday said high-rise buildings would be built in the federal capital to provide efficient housing to the slum dwellers, under Naya Pakistan Housing project.
High-rises to be built in Islamabad to house slum dwellers: PM

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