Sentence examples for run-down housing from inspiring English sources

For over 50 years, the city has had run-down housing, declining schools and increasing crime.

More than anything else, people said they wanted run-down housing fixed.

Wendy is a single mother, looking after her autistic son on a run-down housing estate.

He was simply the polite Chinese immigrant who lived on the 18th floor of their run-down housing project.

In January this year, the prime minister vowed to blitzpoverty and announced government plans to replace what he called run-down housing estateswith attractive and safe homes.

He also hoped it would neutralise the bad feeling after the riots on the run-down housing estates and his comment likening the wayward youths to scum.

They moved to Boston to a run-down house.

The video for one song, "American Twilight," includes images of run-down houses in Detroit.

He lives in a run-down house on Montevideo's outskirts with no servants at all.

It wasn't a cottage but a run-down house, the sort of place where poor people lived.

There was a derelict fence, on the other side of which was a very run-down house, apparently abandoned.