Slum used in a sentence

Slum in a sentence as a noun

I'd suggest slum. It's a place to sleep, but you have no security and no property rights.

And as a result poor Bill has lived in total poverty, only to die of scurvy in a slum. His business died with out trace and he never been heard of since.

Why aren't the barge-lords being treated like slum-lords when the barges they run are overcrowded, full of mould, etc. ?

If you are lucky, you only have to slum it for a few years and then you make a hit on the side. But more often, you have to do whatever it takes, unless you are willing to keep your day job.

Remember, they're slums, so you don't expect hotels. If I can corner the market on houses[1], no matter what the other players do, they can't bankrupt me with rents because they can't improve their properties.

Traditional passive income paths say, becoming a slum lord, dividend investing etc.

Temporary slum-like shantytowns -- totally informal mud-and-corrugated metal shacks -- were set up to house the workers, who worked for 7 days per week, from dawn to dusk. They had one day off per month, at new moon.

Consider the effect of such an advice to someone in a slum neighborhood where "everybody" is dealing *****, to get the worst case scenario.

I know I'm harping on Gizmodo/Gawker/whatever, but I know they're definitely not the only blog slum lord out there. The expectation for immediate news is damaging in a lot of ways, this one is just the worst and most visible.

Slum in a sentence as a verb

If you tear down a slum and replace it with $1M condos in a supply-constrained market, rents will rise. But, there are a limited number of people who can afford to buy 7-figure condos, and it is possible to build enough housing to saturate that demand all the way down the curve.

The protesters are angry that there are relatively prosperous individuals in "their" neighborhoods at all; they would rather it be an affordable slum than be priced out.

I recently spent 2 days working on a renovation project at a local slum here in Hungary. The slum is a couple hundred gipsy families, living in unfinished/abandoned houses without water, gas/heating, they steal electricity off the grid.

The shitty thing about it is that it's too competitive, these days, for people who decide to slum it in their 20s to get back on the career track. The people who think they can **** around while living on a shoestring are going to face horrendous age discrimination when they decide that the career thing is actually important.

As I said, this was originally implemented to prevent slum landlords from using violence to drive out tenants who benefited from statutory rent controls. No UK government has ever passed any law that legalises or permits squatting.

Probably you've never seen a slum, so let me explain: - Houses are juxtaposed to each other, there's no room for windows - Roofs are corrugated, so you can't easily fit a top glass panel even if you have the money for one. - There are transparent, fiber glass roofs, and some people use those, but often they don't get to choose the materials used to build the house, just use what is available.

Ditching the Nokia name seems crazy to me: it's universally recognized, particularly outside the US. Any Indian slum or African village large enough to have a phone dealer will have a Nokia ad plastered on it, whereas outside our little incestous tech circles nobody has heard about the Surface.

I think that the biggest privilege one can have, at least when it comes to matters of career and finance is being born to middle-class or better parents and having an above average IQ. I would imagine a lesbian black woman with an Ivy league education has much greater odds of success than a straight white guy from the trailer park/slum who struggles with reading/writing skills. I find it interesting that it is generally considered correct and fair that somebody has better income and quality of life because of high intelligence when this is a factor as much outside your control as race or gender.

Quote Examples using Slum

My cousins in Mumbai grew up in the slums and now they post photos of their new [car|clothes|apartments] on Facebook. They were the kids bathing on the street and they weren't alone. Almost all of their friends are now working for multinationals in Delhi or Mumbai and most of them are doing better than their parents. An entire generation of slum-dwelling children have their own bathrooms, kitchens, and access to unlimited knowledge, technology, and medicine. I assumed that more people meant more slums. I did not realize that it could be fewer slums and more apartments.

Anonymous

I would be surprised if the former social problems of slums are improved by bricks and mortar. I was in South Africa for a vacation recently. They are giving inhabitants of shanty towns small houses. Once they have moved them out they bulldoze the now-vacated land to build more houses. Someone I met asked me if I could give an old woman a ride to her government provided house at the edge of a shanty town she used to live in. She told me that the solar heating water system installed by the government on all these houses does not work. I could see her house, which could not have been more than 5 years old, was already decaying. I suspect corrupt builders/politicians cheaping out. It was also clear that some of the ever newer houses were quickly deteriorating and were blending into the slum across the small dirt road that separated them, mostly from lack of rudimentary maintenance.

Anonymous