1

The locals are unjustly oppressed but unsympathetic

2

Local leadership has completely sold out their people

3

The slum's misery is under colorably legal justification

4

While miserable, the slum is somehow critical to the city

5

Locals can't leave the slum without papers

6

The slum somehow causes sinister changes in its inmates

7

Oligarchs go on sordid rampages through the slum

8

Slum structures tend to collapse without notice