Sentence examples for poor habitations from inspiring English sources

Of the 16.7 million people living in Delhi, 52% reside in poor habitations.

One in every five resident of Delhi lives in slums and nearly half in other urban poor habitations like unauthorized and resettlement colonies [ 15].

As aforementioned, currently 30% of the Indian population is living in cities. Delhi is one of the most densely populated cities in the world, and attracts nearly 500 000 migrants every year with most settling in urban poor habitations.

The phenomenal population growth in Delhi is predominantly due to large scale migration in the State as a consequence of which half of Delhi's population lives in slums and other urban poor habitation.

In both novels the sordid habitations of the poor or low characters are described with relish.

Epidemics were a human creation, borne of the sin of filth, and God had provided for their redress: by removing putrefying matter from the streets and "cleansing the filthy habitations of the poor," humankind could rid itself of the burden of pestilence.

As Stallybrass and White suggest, the fetishization of filth in the nineteenth century constituted a "transcoding" of the "bodily lower stratum" onto the lower social strata, as the poor became contiguous with their filthy habitations and with the baser animals, such as pigs and rats, that inhabited them.

Low schooling levels among the heads of families, the amount of people per habitation as well as poor financial conditions among those families are considered to be risk factors to incur schistosomiasis [ 9, 10].

They cite soaring housing rental costs, unhealthy conditions in homes, and rising levels of homelessness and warn of "profound issues of lack of supply, increasing housing costs, lack of security of tenure and homes of such poor quality that they are unfit for habitation".

Additional breakdowns (eg, urban vs rural habitation, educated vs uneducated, wealthy vs poor) may be of interest.

Since health literacy itself is a multi- factorial entity, the study also investigated the relationship between lack of awareness and other risk factors of poor ocular health such as gender, location of habitation, level of education, literacy and age.