Sentence examples for decrepit housing from inspiring English sources

The state must accept responsibility for the difficult conditions of people who live in the decrepit housing and single-company towns of the 1930s.

A long stretch of Long Branch's oceanfront was a battered array of go-go joints, vacant storefronts, weedy lots, drug dealers, decrepit housing and a defunct water slide.

On her decrepit housing estate there is no sense of community, the culture has collapsed, and such hopes as the people have reside in dreams of being elsewhere.

The stress of not having money, of living in decrepit housing, of sending children to poorly funded schools would take its toll on even the most committed relationship.

ARSENYEVO, Russia — It was a grim-faced crowd that gathered last week at the Palace of Culture in this village, making its way past decrepit housing blocks, broken streetlights and a statue of Lenin.

Others are shots of Cape Town: a decrepit housing project, a tightly secured luxury home, a shopping mall, a church, a stretch of fencing topped by razor wire with unidentified low-rise buildings beyond.

Muhammad prays five times a day in his decrepit house.

Dan finds the baby's mother; she lives alone in a decrepit house.

The school itself is a drafty, decrepit house with four rooms.

My husband is a woodworker who is restoring our decrepit house.

She has no family, no papers, and lives under an assumed name in a decrepit house peopled by other transients.