slummification

Noun

slummification (uncountable)

1. The process of an area or neighborhood becoming a slum.
   • There is an amusing side to this terrible threat to the countryside. So long as the uglification and slummification of England was confined to the industrial centres, few of the really best people troubled themselves.1928 August, R. B. Suthers, “The Disappearance of Rural England”, in The Labour Magazine, volume 7, number 4, London: Trades Union Congress; Labour Party, page 172
   • “In its place, I ordain, an equivalent graduated tax will be levied for the benefit of the Third World countries. But not to build ungainly factories with. Certainly not! Priority will be given to agricultural development projects that will stop the flight from the land and the slummification of...1982, Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim, Headbirths, or, The Germans Are Dying Out, New York, N.Y: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 73; translation of Kopfgeburten oder Die Deutschen...