(Valrico, the town a few miles to the northeast where she had lived before, was overcrowded and beset with gangs).
"But we were overcrowded before and now we're at a comfortable size," St. Charles said.
Some managed to salvage belongings furniture, kitchenware, a television or stereo from their houses before being evacuated, and their rooms look almost cosy, if overcrowded.
They are designed for overcrowding before they dig the first foundations; that to us is ridiculous.
When the eye has space to rest, it can appreciate the creation before it, however when it's overcrowded with so many competing designs, it gets lost or worse, becomes an eyesore.
Eyewitnesses claim they tried to warn police before the stampede occurred that the tunnel was overcrowded, but said the authorities ignored their warnings.
It was unclear exactly what set off the panic among the throngs of young people squeezing into the tunnel leading to festival grounds in the western German city of Duisburg, but the police said they had tried to close off the area because of overcrowding just before the stampede.
The city's housing was already overcrowded and in a poor condition but, in the days before widespread council housing, private landlords saw this extra demand as an opportunity to raise rents for the thousands of tenants.
We were also overcrowded.
The prison was overcrowded.
