Collocations for slum - noun

crowded, overcrowded, teeming
sprawling, vast
poor
filthy
notorious
city, inner-city (esp. BrE), urban
tenement
rural
immigrant (esp. AmE)

clear (esp. BrE), demolish
live in
25% of the city lives in slums.

conditions
area, district, neighbourhood/neighborhood, street
dwelling, housing (esp. BrE), property, tenement
clearance
children, dwellers, kids (informal)
life
landlord (esp. BrE) (slumlord in AmE)

from the slums
a kid from the slums

in a/the slums
born in the slums of East London