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The slums were known as the projects. This was because it was thought at the time that those vicinities would be the project out of the Great Depression. This name stuck to the same type of living to present day.
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What is the croweded and most dangerous part of a city called?
The slums
What does slums mean?
slums mean a very poor area with little food and bad shelter
Why didnt people move out of slums?
Generally speaking, those who can afford to, do so as soon as they can.Slums are generally places where there is great poverty.The people who live in them cannot afford to move out. Property prices are too high for them elsewhere, and the property owners who own the slums don't have an incentive to improve their property as the rents are so low.They didn't had enough money People did not move out of the slums because property prices were much higher elsewhere.
What Jacob riis do?
Wrote about conditions in the slums
How did poor Victorian children live?
Unfortunately they often were forced to live in work houses, or if their parents had a job of sorts, then they lived in bad housing called slums
What president had slums named after him during the great depression?
Hoovervilles were named for President Herbert Hoover.
Many immigrants lived in urban apartment slums called?
Many immigrants lived in urban apartment slums called flats. These flats held a great many people and were often overcrowded.
Where did the poorest people live during the industrial revolution?
They lived in areas of large cities called slums.
Why they name the Hoovervilles after president hoover?
Hoovervilles (also called shantytowns) were camps built by families during the Great Depression in the 1930s who were unfortunate enough to not be able to pay their mortgages anymore. They were built in open spaces using tin, cardboard, tar paper, glass, composition roofing, canvas, and other materials. The Americans named these towns after President Herbert Hoover because many citizens blamed him for the Great Depression, the downfall of the economic stability and lack of government help.
What are slums called in Chile?
They are called "campamentos"
What are slums in Columbia called?
shantytown
What are shanty towns called in Kolkata?
slums
What are the slums of south america called?
I believe they are called Favela's
The slums in New York during the 1800 was?
The Five Points
The are the crowded slums of Brazil's cities?
They are called Favela.
What is the name for slums in Brazil?
It's called favela
What were areas in a city called were most of the poor working-class lived in crowded conditions?
Slums
