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  2. Category:Slum clearance - Wikipedia

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  3. Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act 1875

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    The Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 36) or the Cross Act was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom designed by Richard Cross, Home Secretary during Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli's second Conservative Government, which involved allowing local councils to buy up areas of slum dwellings in order to clear and then rebuild them.

  4. Education in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Upper School - Forms 4 & 5 or grades 10-11; In 4th form, students choose anywhere from 6-11 subjects (8 is the standard) that they will sit in the Caribbean Examination Council's school leaving examinations (Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate).

  5. Slum clearance - Wikipedia

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    Slum clearance removes the slum, but neglecting the needs of the community or its people, does not remove the causes that create and maintain the slum. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Similarly, plans to remove slums in several non-Western contexts have proven ineffective without sufficient housing and other support for the displaced communities.

  6. Slum upgrading - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, because of the tenuous legal status of slum inhabitants, often strategies include the legalization of the right to the land on which slums are built. The concept of slum upgrading is to remove slums altogether by demolition undertaken by government or other organisations and companies [dubious – discuss], since the mid-20th century.

  7. Housing Act of 1949 - Wikipedia

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    Source: [9] Title I - Slum Clearance & Community Development & Redevelopment. Authorized $1 Billion in loans to help cities acquire slums and blighted land for public or private redevelopment. It also allotted $100 million every year for five years for grants to cover two-thirds of the difference between the cost of the slum land and its reuse ...

  8. Slum clearance in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932 approved slum clearance loans and new low-rent housing, yet New York City was the only place where development occurred under the act. In 1933, the act was replaced with the National Industrial Recovery Act which focused on slum clearance and home construction for low-income families and ...

  9. Slum clearance in India - Wikipedia

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    The Slum Areas (Improvement and Clearance Act) of 1956 provided "for the improvement and clearance of slum areas in certain Union territories and for the protection of tenants in such areas from eviction". [1] The first Slum Clearance Board was established by Tamil Nadu, the most urbanised state in India. Under a new Slum Clearance Act, the ...