A homeless encampment is seen on July 11, 2023, in Phoenix. An estimated 89% of Americans will live in urban areas by 2050, adding to the potential for a growing slum economy across the United States.

No man in the United States has had more to do with public works than ROBERT MOSES. He has been head of the state park system of New York since 1924, park commissioner of New York City and ...

Developed countries like the United States pay lip service to reducing poverty and the spread of slums, but haven't backed up their promises with cash, said Jeffrey Sachs, a Colombia University ...

Photograph shows Detroit slums with downtown skyscrapers in ... — been offered as symbolic of the decay of the "rust belt" manufacturing-industrial cities of the northeastern United States. ...

Maps Show How Tearing Down City Slums Displaced Thousands. In the 1950s and ‘60s, federally funded projects displaced hundreds of thousands of people in American cities.

In the United States, we tend to think of the suburbs as the historic domain of the middle class. ... In three years, the slum population rose more than 130 percent.

He told the Senate Rules Committee he considered the site of the project to have been “one of the worst slums in the United States, with the highest child mortality rate in the country.” ...