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  1. List of paraphrases for "slums":

    shantytowns, slum, favelas, slum-dwellers, neighbourhoods

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  1. Yutaka Okada:

    Popular areas will survive, but it would not be surprising if areas that are not so popular will have a lot of vacant houses and turn into slums.

  2. Bellur Prabhakar:

    Social distancing in a country like India is going to be very, very challenging, we might be able to pull it off in urban areas, but in slums and areas of urban sprawl, I just don't see how it can be done.

  3. Housing Minister Mustafa Madbouly:

    (We are) upgrading slums and unsafe areas. We are talking here about 248 areas ... 150,000 families.

  4. Megan Smolenyak:

    She watched half of them go to the grave by the age of 3, if you look at their death certificates, it’s a variety of causes, but they all track back to poverty. They all tie to life in tenement slums.

  5. Democratic Socialist:

    In both Norway and Sweden, whose economies are literally dwarfed by the size of our affluence and the extent of our technology, they have no unemployment and no slums, there, men, women and children have long enjoyed free medical care and quality education. This contrast to the limited, halting steps taken by our rich nation deeply troubled me.


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