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| - Slums can be used to start a new neighborhood if you have collected enough bonds to form a deed or if you have bought or won a deed via Lucky Chance. They can also be used to move an existing neighborhood to it's location, but only If you have the required items.
- Slum is the villain from Mutation Nation. A mad scientist, he was shut down for conducting illegal experiments. Soon after, his lab exploded, and he disappeared mysteriously. Years after the incident, his experiments were forgotten and buildings were erected in the place were his lab was. Two police officers, who had been on vacation, return to the city, only to find that everyone was gone and that the city was now populated by weird mutants. Without options, the two take upon themselves to face the mutants and find the culprit, before the mutants spread through the entire nation and maybe the world. After crossing the street and defeating many mutants, they discover that Slum is still alive, and that he was the one responsible for turning people into mutants. The two head to the building
- Slums are urban areas suffering from urban decay or generally low quality housing where poor people live. The term slum was less predominantly used in the postwar period when the slum clearances were starting to become more common. In the UK, slums were usually of Victorian origin with back to back houses or two up, two down houses. Large families would usually live in these small houses which often provided no decent sanitation resulting in the areas becoming a breeding pot of disease. The people were often poverty-stricken.
- Slums are legal but substandard settlements. It is overcrowded, under-serviced settlements. Slum dwellers could be either renters of the shelter, or the land or they could be owners of the land and dwelling. Slums are normally found in the centres of cities, although it is not uncommon to find slums, where land is rented, in the urban periphery. Many slums are also disaster-prone sites—on hillsides or floodplains, or near factories. Monsoon flooding in Mumbai claims hundreds of victims among the illegal occupants of hazardous areas—including the canals meant to drain the excess water.
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| - Slum is the villain from Mutation Nation. A mad scientist, he was shut down for conducting illegal experiments. Soon after, his lab exploded, and he disappeared mysteriously. Years after the incident, his experiments were forgotten and buildings were erected in the place were his lab was. Two police officers, who had been on vacation, return to the city, only to find that everyone was gone and that the city was now populated by weird mutants. Without options, the two take upon themselves to face the mutants and find the culprit, before the mutants spread through the entire nation and maybe the world. After crossing the street and defeating many mutants, they discover that Slum is still alive, and that he was the one responsible for turning people into mutants. The two head to the building located in the place of Slum's lab, where they find Slum, who turns himself into a horrendous mutant. They manage to kill Slum and escape the collapsing building.
- Slums are legal but substandard settlements. It is overcrowded, under-serviced settlements. Slum dwellers could be either renters of the shelter, or the land or they could be owners of the land and dwelling. Slums are normally found in the centres of cities, although it is not uncommon to find slums, where land is rented, in the urban periphery. Slums are an obvious manifestation of inequitable access to physical and financial assets, to secure land tenure, and to political representation. They also reflect the failures of government to guide and facilitate the growth of low-income housing and basic services for incoming migrants through appropriate policy and planning. These communities grow through the enormous entrepreneurial energy of residents who build the city and provide its labor. With the right institutional environment they can evolve more quickly into safe, healthful, and hospitable urban neighborhoods. The multiple environmental health and safety risks in urban areas are related largely to the conditions and location of settlement. Hundreds of millions of urban dwellers have few affordable options other than to live on sites (usually public lands) where development has not been approved and where residents are therefore not officially entitled to urban services or protections. Such informal neighborhoods remain in squalid condition for decades. Since the home is also a major source of income (both from rental and home-based industry) and the household’s main private asset, the social and economic burden of such physical conditions is profound. Many slums are also disaster-prone sites—on hillsides or floodplains, or near factories. Monsoon flooding in Mumbai claims hundreds of victims among the illegal occupants of hazardous areas—including the canals meant to drain the excess water. Slum neighborhoods typically have disproportionately high concentrations of low-income people (though not necessarily the extreme poor, such as the homeless). They may also house middle-income residents in cities where formal provision of infrastructure and housing markets are very weak. Residents of inner-city slums, typically settled for many years, generally have better availability of infrastructure (though it is often poor in quality and unreliable). They also have more established communities and less physical isolation than residents of newer settlements, usually on the outskirts. Both groups suffer from the stigma of their neighborhood that impedes their access to employment and to wider networks of social capital.
- Slums are urban areas suffering from urban decay or generally low quality housing where poor people live. The term slum was less predominantly used in the postwar period when the slum clearances were starting to become more common. In the UK, slums were usually of Victorian origin with back to back houses or two up, two down houses. Large families would usually live in these small houses which often provided no decent sanitation resulting in the areas becoming a breeding pot of disease. The people were often poverty-stricken. The Housing Act of 1936 paved the way for slum clearances. What was built in their place was usually postwar council estates with tower blocks. The estates were usually of a much better quality than the Victorian estates. They offered a healthy system of sanitation and provided enough space for families. The buildings were also seen as modern for their time as well as sometimes offering spectacular views over the area, which made them attractive to buyers. Many of these estates deteriorated to become sink estates. Lee Bank, which had previously been a Victorian slum, in Birmingham, was the focus of media attention in 1998 when a local resident erected a billboard at the time of the visit by Bill Clinton, saying "Lee Bank, Birmingham's slum quarter". Lee Bank has since been regenerated.
- Slums can be used to start a new neighborhood if you have collected enough bonds to form a deed or if you have bought or won a deed via Lucky Chance. They can also be used to move an existing neighborhood to it's location, but only If you have the required items.
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