Despite a flood of foreign aid, hundreds of thousands of people continue to languish in squalid shelters.
He often slept in a squalid homeless shelter, if not under a bridge.
An American prosthetics specialist, Dennis Acton, who examined her there, described the place as a kind of "squalid homeless shelter for amputees".
That is when Dr. Benjamin lost track of her — and when Dennis Acton of the New Hampshire group found her in a place he described as a kind of "squalid homeless shelter for amputees".
In Bay St . Louis Miss., the police on Thursday shut down a high school that had been illegally turned into a squalid, lawless shelter where hundreds of people were fighting and using the floors as toilets.
Thousands of frightened people had sought shelter in squalid camps at the airport.
At the Maguwoharjo Stadium on Yogyakarta's outer fringe, nearly 30,000 people arrived covered in dust to take shelter in squalid spaces underneath concrete awnings.
Families sheltered in squalid Midtown welfare hotels during a city real estate boom became the focus of campaigns for public sympathy and subsidized housing.
A few weeks later, I went to Calais, a sprawling and squalid "jungle" of tents and improvised shelters that house an estimated five to seven thousand people on the north coast of France.
They may be living in squalid conditions but their tents and shelters at least afford privacy, and makeshift shops, churches, mosques and restaurants help people get through the grind of daily life.
