Mr. Grogan said some feared they might be getting into slum housing, and wanted no part of it.
Until 1929 it was an area of slum housing.
In any case, it was concerned only with slum housing which eventually had to be cleared.
Historically, the area consisted of Victorian back-to-back slum housing.
This film takes us back to the 1930s - a time of slum housing and great hardship for many of Britain's working classes.
North Kensington was once well known for its slum housing.
The area became infamous through exaggerated reports of opium dens and slum housing.
But if you see the slum housing, you say, 'Wow, what a difference.'
African Americans had complained of substandard, slum housing and police neglect in the otherwise affluent city.
In the 1920s the slum housing which crowded round the church was demolished.