The plight of social housing estates has occurred because of decades of neglect and ghettoisation, according to the report by Policy Exchange, a centre-right thinktank.
Witness the plight of the house finch, a sparrow-size bird with a reddish breast that is a popular year-round visitor to feeders.
House 1 was measured in response to the plight of a family after a paint contractor power sanded all exterior paint from the weatherboards.
If Penn Station was the sacrificial victim that galvanized the preservation movement in the early 1960's, St. Thomas may be the building that awakens public awareness of the plight of many grand houses of worship, landmarks and would-be landmarks, whose congregations are small and short of money.
The forum, sponsored by The Daily News and the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation, a community activist group, touched on troubles with public housing and the plight of working-class New Yorkers facing higher housing costs.
But here in Israel, where urban tent cities began springing up a week ago and continue multiplying across the country, the issue is not democracy but the plight of the consumer, especially in housing, food and other basic goods.
But the sharp economic downturn that followed the bursting of the housing bubble, and the discovery of the dubious financial practices behind it, casts a revivifying new light on the plight of the Loman family.
The novelist's own passions – aside from the writing – include collecting vintage dolls' houses, the plight of the water vole and an increasing addiction to online writing communities.
Restrictions on local news agencies and newspapers seem to have eased recently with a few going as far as breaking the taboo on reporting the plight of political prisoners or the house arrests of opposition leaders.
