slum dwelling

The town is fringed by the slum dwellings of the poor.

And yet it occupies a slum dwelling in the town of economics."

Thousands of derelict slum dwellings for them to hide and breed in.

Compel owners of slum dwelling to sell to councils, who must provide compensation.

The site is occupied by a slum dwelling whose occupants are about to be evicted in order to make way for the new development.

However, housing conditions were much improved by this and by the clearance of some 700 slum dwellings.

But was it any worse than the broken toilet and steaming garbage of a twentieth-century slum dwelling?

This term was probably used to refer to the slum dwellings of the rickshaw pullers.

The Botchergate East area until recently had older slum dwellings.

These stairs were initially populated by slum dwellings.

These were also demolished in the 1960s after being declared 'slum dwellings'.

The living conditions she experienced were back to back slum dwellings with hand to mouth existence, but in a close knit and supportive community.

Why were there slum dwellings?

His patchworks of alligatored paint on canvas could symbolize the accumulation of years, especially in slum dwelling decor.

Lacking bathrooms and with poor sanitary conditions this building, one of the last slum dwellings to exist in central London, was still occupied until the early 1970s.

The oldest homes were built between 1936 and 1939 to house people from the dilapidated slum dwelling around Jericho and St. Ebbes.

You see a long muddy hillside that has become home to a bustee, thousands and thousands of slum dwellings where tiny fires are tended through the night.

Official calculations of the number of slum dwellings were continually revised (upwardly) and by 1939 the officially accepted total for England and Wales stood at 472,000.

An additional 3.5 million people pay rent to occupy what are also considered to be slum dwellings, while a similar number live in homes built on plots with disputed land titles.

"There were a lot of slum dwellings in Dublin at the time that were on a par with Calcutta," said Mr. Kavanagh, a fourth-generation Dubliner.

Octavia Hill was an energetic propagandist and played an important role in bringing the appalling problems of filthy, overcrowded slum dwellings to the attention of government and of philanthropists.

In the 1982 musical, Little Shop of Horrors, Audrey, the slum dwelling heroine, dreams of a home "Somewhere that's Green" but "Not fancy like Levittown.

On the Waterfront was filmed over 36 days on location in various places in Hoboken, New Jersey, including the docks, workers' slum dwellings, bars, littered alleys, rooftops.

Slum dwellings had proliferated in the city, and the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai had been granted permission to demolish pavement structures by a Supreme Court ruling.

In the 1980's, Orlando relieved overcrowding in that neighborhood by replacing more than 1,000 renters in slum dwellings with trees, the Orlando Arena and thousands of parking spaces.