Slum courtyard in northern industrial town, England, 1933. Slum clearance in the United Kingdom was used as an urban renewal strategy to transform poorer areas. Early mass clearances took place in the country's northern cities. Starting in the 1930s, with the Housing Act 1930, councils were expected to prepare plans to clear slum dwellings, although progress stalled upon the onset of World War II.

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