slum clearance
Demolishing poor neighborhoods
Slum clearance is the demolition of dilapidated urban housing, typically by government action, to make way for new development or public projects.
The practice was widespread in mid-twentieth-century cities: Federal slum clearance programs displaced thousands of families.
Critics note that clearance often scattered established communities without providing adequate replacement housing.
- public housingSubsidized homes for poor
- housing projectsGovernment-subsidized residential complexes
- council estatesGovernment-owned residential developments
- overcrowdingCapacity exceeded dangerously
- tenementsOvercrowded urban dwellings
run down · displacement · compulsory purchase · affordable housing · eviction · gentrification · condemned · demolition site · zoning · poverty reduction · dispossession · Robert Moses · federal funds · post-war reconstruction · tenant rights · homelessness · eminent domain · blight
- displacementdislocation, dislodging, relocation, displacing, uprooting
- housing historyland grants, homesteading, redlining, zoning laws, deed restrictions
- land usezoning ordinances, suburban sprawl, land management, arable land, industrial
- Victorian reformpoor laws, poorhouse, temperance movement, abolitionists, child labor
- housingapartments, home, house, houses, homes
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
slum clearanceinfill development
Building on unused urban land
historic preservation · building restoration · adaptive reuse · urban infill · community development
slum clearancehistoric preservation
Protecting significant old structures
building conservation · adaptive reuse · restoration · renovation · landmark preservation
unclear, cleared, clearing, clearance, slum, slums, clearances, slumming, slummy