Sentence examples for out of slums from inspiring English sources

Governments were determined to shift people out of slums into healthy new towns in the countryside, and to divert growth around the regions.

As more people move to cities or out of slums, into homes with hard floors, lavatories and plumbing, so the crusade against dirt wins new recruits.

If these had been the focus of the research, then subsidizing rents to get families out of slums would be harder to justify.

Starting with the Housing Act of 1937, which was passed as part of the New Deal, public housing was intended to improve the living conditions of poor people by getting them out of slums.

Posts I've written on science and other off-the-beaten-track topics like innovation coming out of slums and villages in the developing world typically don't drive the same traffic or engagement that a post about the latest YCombinator company does.

You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums.

All-girl troupe battles have blunt immediacy; they're briskly edited, but lacking the swooping cameras, neon and dry ice of the dance-out-of-the-slums genre.

They dreamed of their children going on to build livelihoods in a burgeoning economy and pulling them out of the slums.

It has boosted Meire up the socioeconomic ladder and out of the slums: By serving the middle and upper classes in her cubicle at Ipanema's Spa do Pé (Foot Spa), she has herself entered Brazil's burgeoning middle class.

Indeed, while India and China have lifted at least 125m people out of slum poverty since 1990, over the same period 46 countries have actually got poorer – the large majority of them African states.

Balzacian realism now replaces anguished metaphysics: this hero is not a mafioso but, more banally, a kind of real-estate lowlife — he and his friends chase poor tenants out of slum buildings, buy up the buildings, and then sell them at a profit.