The phrase "a squalor" is not correct in English.
The word "squalor" is an uncountable noun and should not be preceded by an article like "a."
Example: "The family lived in squalor, struggling to make ends meet in their dilapidated home."
Alternatives: "squalid conditions" or "state of squalor."
To me, the difference between a clean hoarder and a squalor hoarder is that of a dry mess versus a wet mess.
In a squalor hoarder's home you may find standing pools of putrid water, carcasses of dead animals, discarded dirty adult diapers, and the like.
"You living in a squalor situation but you have Benetton sheets and even Benetton curtains, and the place you livin' in has no hot runnin' water.
Finally making it to Tijuana, they ended up in Benito Juarez, the open-air sports complex turned shelter where some 6,000 migrants squeezed together in a squalor of mud, lice and raw sewage.
Aren't China and India catching up to America because businesses there are willing and able to exploit their labor even more horrendously than we do, and they allow the vast majority of their citizens to live in a squalor that makes even some of our poorest neighborhoods look genteel?
Scott Pask's set — a litter-cluttered staff room in the midst of antiseptic corridors — is imbued with a sterile squalor, a sense of anonymous mess.
LeRoy's books deal in a trampy squalor and a kind of sawed-off lyricism that are, if nothing else, fiendishly à la mode.
The chaos is complete; comedy is tinged with danger; innocence is threatened; and what has seemed, until now, a careless squalor, has congealed into a cogent and rather beautiful bit of passionate and expressionistic hurly-burly.
As the nation spent the summer watching those telegenic survivors turn desert-island filth into high ratings, researchers in the United States and in England told a different kind of dirty story: a little squalor may be good for the health.
"It would be thought very squalid these days". Ward is not averse to a little squalor, or at least untidiness.
Capital spending was poleaxed, storing up a public squalor deficit for the future that will need to be repaid as surely as the fiscal deficit.
