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  • Despite such prosperity, the tremendous economic changes left many of its urban poor living in overcrowded slums.
  • The same cannot be said for the sprawling slums of addis ababa.
  • Slum dwellers.
  • Go directly to the city slums wearing your best clothes.
  • They include mrs sefali, who moved into one of the city's numerous illegal slums, mirpur, 10 years ago.
  • Slums of the major american cities.
  • It shows a ' before and after ' image of the new housing that would replace the existing slums.
  • A sewerage system was built in the 1840s but notorious slums of the west quarter remained until the 1930s.
  • Slum clearance campaign - anyone got a black bin liner?
  • I had lived in a tenement slum all my life.
  • They were in the right in their policies of clearing these slums.
  • Earlier this year, our team visited hassan's home in the crowded slums of kampala.
  • Slum dwellings were still a common sight in scottish cities.
  • Here heaven on earth has become a sinister slum, an annex of history.
  • Farmers who gave up early have gone to urban slums.
  • Slum landlords.
  • The victorian slums were cleared away in a project which ran from 1969 for the next decade.
  • Slum district to find destitute boys to help them.
  • Solly kaye: you had massive unemployment, immense poverty, social services nowhere near what they are today, terrible slums.
  • Slum housing close to the center had to be replaced.

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