21. The health portfolio at the time included responsibility for housing, including slum clearance and rehousing. 22. In the 20th century, declining living standards in the Old Town prompted widespread slum clearance . 23. The goal of this extension was the slum clearance . 24. The slum clearance programme disrupted the network of the old communities and the extended family. 25. The Housing Act 1930 encouraged further mass slum clearance . 26. A secondary intention of the act was the completion of the pre-war slum clearance project. 27. Originally in the borough of West Bromwich, it was developed by West Bromwich slum clearances . 28. The Housing Act of 1938 provided subsidies aimed at encouraging slum clearance and maintained rent control. 29. Second, it has established the Authority as an agency for the issuance of slum clearance bonds. 30. It was a different story on the terraces with Glasgow's slum clearance programme hitting attendances hard.
