slum
Neglected city quarter
A slum is a densely populated urban area marked by poverty, substandard housing, and inadequate sanitation.
The word often appears in the plural: the slums of Mumbai, growing up in the slums.
To slum or go slumming is to visit places or engage in activities considered beneath one's usual social standing, often with condescending curiosity: slumming it at a dive bar.
Aerial journey by aircraft
- suburbanizationGrowth of outlying residential areas
- redliningRefusing loans by neighborhood
- blockbustingScaring homeowners into selling
- segregationForced separation by group
white flight · urban exodus · disinvestment · ghettoization · housing discrimination · FHA · tipping point · panic selling
flight
Aerial journey by aircraft
- suburbanizationGrowth of outlying residential areas
- redliningRefusing loans by neighborhood
- blockbustingScaring homeowners into selling
segregation · white flight · urban exodus · disinvestment · ghettoization · housing discrimination · FHA · tipping point · panic selling · steering
- neighborhoodsneighborhood, suburb, subdivision, Greenwich Village, East Village
- Indian homescourtyard house, mud hut, mud house, courtyard home, hut
- overpopulationpopulation growth, population boom, overcrowding, crowding, carrying capacity
- slumsshanty, shanties, shack, shacks, hovel
- Victorian povertyworkhouse, poorhouse, tenement, hovel, pauper
- dwellingshouse, home, apartment, cabin, cottage
Prosperous residential area
gated community · Hamptons · suburb · gentrified area · wealthy enclave
- slum lordOwner neglecting rental properties
- slum landlord
- slum itAccept lesser accommodations
- slum dwellersResidents of impoverished neighborhoods
- slum clearanceDemolition of substandard housing
- urban slumsDeprived inner-city zones
slums, slumlord, slumming, slummy, slummed, slumlords, slummers, slumlike