Prince George's was cracking down on dilapidated housing complexes, but arresting an owner was unusual.
Activists worry this could further dismantle the Detroit neighborhoods already pockmarked with vacant land and dilapidated housing.
I drove slowly past a series of Khrushchevki — the five-story, instantly dilapidated housing blocks built throughout the Soviet Union by Khrushchev, and loathed by all.
This was in spite of millions of euros being invested since the riots by the government into refurbishing or rebuilding the communities' dilapidated housing project and public areas.
Significant parts of the city are densely packed with substandard, often dilapidated housing, inhabited mostly by construction workers, sweepers, factory labourers, and other low-income groups.
In West Germany, the anxiety has centered on the huge cost of taking over a land of obsolete factories, dilapidated housing and huge social payments.
Often, they provide dilapidated housing, do not pay overtime and make migrant workers pay for their tools and rides to work.
And as the tax receipts fell and the city budget bled red, the mayor continued a Koch-era program and poured billions of dollars into rehabilitating dilapidated housing.
Many live in what amount to segregated, dilapidated housing projects, and their children are often shunted into schools for the mentally retarded.
Her papers in Manuscripts and Archives donated to Yale in 2016 demonstrate Johnson's longstanding interest in a range of social issues, from dilapidated housing and poor public transportation in New Haven, to immigrant rights and union organizing.
In India, planning rules and a historic antipathy to unrestrained materialism has meant that this race to touch the sky has largely bypassed the cities, which are more notable for their shantytowns and dilapidated housing.
