"But you also have a right to a decent shelter.
All along the way there was never enough food or decent shelter.
Lawmakers had to decide whether to back an enormous state bond issue that would finance decent shelter in the proliferating slums.
The EU, an entity that boasts some of the most advanced and wealthiest societies on Earth, seems incapable of organising decent shelter for people who are begging for help.
Granted, it was a worn-out, weary place with lots of aches and pains — floorboards that complained, mattresses that wheezed, windows that shrieked when you pushed them open — but it was decent shelter.
He felt quite sure that most people would prefer safety from assault, not to mention decent shelter and food on the table, to exquisite intimations of mortality — if such sensations even existed.
Since 1996, prices have outpaced fundamentals such as inflation, incomes, construction costs, rents and GDP, making it difficult for potential first home buyers to enter the market while lower income households and marginal groups struggle to afford decent shelter.
When his mother gets evicted, on a snowy winter day, and the city can't find a decent shelter for her and Tyrell and his younger brother, Troy, he finds himself in the roach-infested Bennett Motel.
Yvonne McCain, a once-homeless mother of four whose years of living in a fetid, ramshackle welfare hotel in Midtown Manhattan led to a landmark court ruling requiring the city to provide decent shelter for homeless families, died Saturday in her rent-subsidized, middle-income apartment on Staten Island.
