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He also closed schools that were dilapidated or poorly attended, thereby strengthening the 38 that remained open, according to local Catholic leaders who observed the process.

By pooling the resources and closing several schools that were dilapidated or poorly attended, Bishop Egan strengthened the diocese's 38 remaining Catholic schools, say several local Catholic leaders who observed the process.

Russia, by contrast, has spent billions under Putin to upgrade and modernise the capabilities of forces that were dilapidated after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

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WHAT can you do with a 50-year-old public housing project that is dilapidated, dangerous and heartily disliked by its neighbors?

Now, most of the former camp dwellers are doubled up in their friends' or families' homes, scattered at random in tents and improvised dwellings, or living in "precarious housing" that is dilapidated, damaged or partly collapsed, the organization says.

"And the new law also applies to empty homes - of which there are 720,000 in England alone, including many that are dilapidated and abandoned - criminalising homeless people when they are just trying to find a place off the streets".

"This was a good place – it's probably 65% of the commercial rate in the same neighbourhood, and the reason for that is that it's a building that's dilapidated".

Yet as two recent reports demonstrate, for many LGBT people specifically LGBT people of color and elders this quest for home routinely comes up against a housing supply that's dilapidated, stretched thin, too expensive and far removed from the cities and neighborhoods we deserve to inhabit.

He saw that the fort walls were dilapidated, learned from the garrison commander that the soldiers' gunpowder was wet, and that they expected reinforcements at any time.

To retrofit a space, Mr. Goldman said, "We go into the basements of older buildings that may be dilapidated and in need of help, and we clear them out, customize the lighting, work around the weird shape of the building, or slanted ceilings, or whatever, and install steel storage units in areas that we inspect, maintain and keep secure".

In a desperate measure preceding this year's monsoon, the city's civic chief, Sitaram Kunte, said residents of buildings that were declared dilapidated by the city authority had until June 15 to evacuate.

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