Slums

A slum is a residential area with substandard housing that is poorly serviced and/or overcrowded, and therefore unhealthy, unsafe, and socially undesirable. A single dwelling can fit this description, but the term is usually reserved for larger areas, rural or more commonly urban. Slums, like the poor who inhabit them, have always existed, but became more extensive with the rise of the industrial city. Rising incomes, and stricter building and …