Slum clearance
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Slum clearance, slum eviction or slum removal is an urban renewal redevelopment policy that aims at the demolition of informal, irregular, or low-income settlements, such as slums, tenements, and shan
Protests by residents of Vila Autódromo against their removal.
The Battle of Chavez Ravine was a conflict in 1950s Los Angeles, when the city designated the predominantly Mexican-American community a "slum" and proceeded with expropriation and forced removal for the construction of the Dodger Stadium.
The Metrocable and the Parque Biblioteca España, symbols of slum upgrading in Medellín.
Slum clearance in the United Kingdom has been used as an urban renewal strategy to transform low-income settlements with poor reputation into another type of development or housing. Early mass clearan
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Boundary Street in London, part of the Old Nichol slum
John Grantham, Sheriff of Newcastle, surveying slum clearance areas during a visit by the Minister of Health, 16 October 1925
Beaconsfield Street in Liverpool, pictured in 2012, originally to be demolished as part of housing renewal. The houses have since been restored.