"this squalor" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something squalid or wretched. For example: "The children living in this squalor deserved better."
Could this squalor ever be redeemed?
The early modernists wanted to wash away this squalor with an ocean of shining chrome, tile and white plaster.
While all this squalor is as unmistakable as a septic wound waved under our noses, there are darker, deeper currents moving within Maupassant's work.
Check out the dissonant 'Womankind'WishIshad had a lover who could turn this squalor into wine'), while the show stopper is 'Sing' - a collaboration with 23 female superstars that is incandescent.
For the hundreds of thousands of Haitians still camped in this squalor, life is only slightly better than it was right after the earthquake, when they bundled up whatever possessions they had left and took to the streets.
For Billy at least, rescue from this aromatic squalor may be at hand.
James Noone designs this particular squalor well and includes a wall that revolves for showing off improvements when the Boyles think they've come into money.
This only accentuates the squalor of Kyra's life, as does the tenement soundscape by Paul Arditti.
Everything comes weighted in significance, from the way Tyler furiously smokes his cigarettes to the camera movements that carefully show off the squalor in which this scion of a wealthy family has chosen to settle.
But none of this does much to detract from the squalor and misery of the camp.
It's difficult in Vancouver, but it brings me closer to understanding the squalor I see every day in this metropolis.
