Slum
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A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and they are primarily inhabited by impoverished people.
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- List of slums
- Informal waste collection
- Banlieue (Term used for the deprived neighbourhoods in the edges or around the French cities)
- Barrio (slums in Venezuela)
- Campamento (slums in Chile)
- Favela (slums in Brazil)
- Gecekondu (slums in Turkey)
- Ghetto
- Hooverville (slums in 1930s US)
- Inner city
- Komboni (slums in Zambia)
- Pueblos jóvenes (slums in Peru)
- Refugee shelter
- Romani People camp
- Rooftop slum
- Rookery (slums in London, United Kingdom)
- Shanty town
- Skid row
- Tent city
- Trailer park
- Urban village (China)
- Villa miseria (slums in Argentina)
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