Sentence examples for shoddy housing from inspiring English sources

The government supplied shoddy housing, free cars, schooling and health care, but state salaries seldom exceeded $500 a month and the economy sucked in some 1.5m foreign labourers.

Last November, police clashed with thousands of migrants in Qianjiang city to protest shoddy housing and inadequate compensation, according to Radio Free Asia.

Family members were especially irritated by what they considered an incomprehensible medical care system, by transfers every 18 months and by the shoddy housing in too many bases.

This is a film that aches for cult status but, like its shoddy housing developments and sub-prime economics, simply isn't built on strong enough foundations.Does this mean the end for Mr Gosling as a director?

After they arrived in America, according to the indictment, their passports were taken and they were set up in shoddy housing and told that if they complained or fled they would be fired, arrested or deported.

Most people were unconcerned even with existing regulations, preferring to trust that God would protect them even as they built shoddy housing in unsuitable areas, Mr. Ozburun, the sociologist, said.

Shoddy houses, schools and hospitals are still built along known fault lines.

Whatever the subject, Mill surveys the ground, clears it of underbrush, builds a house of straw to demonstrate what a shoddy house looks like, sets it on fire, and in its place builds a house of brick, which he dares you to knock down.

It will only be when sifting through the ashes of the great policy bonfire, having presided over an era of the shoddiest house construction the UK has ever seen, that he might realise how useful some of that "green crap" was.

China's swelling middle classes, many of whom live in shoddy 1980s housing, are also eagerly moving to fancier flats or McMansions.

In the ashes of the predominantly black neighborhood where the siege took place, shoddy replacement housing rose, one caption tells us.