Sentence examples for wretched housing from inspiring English sources

Karim had been more restrained, pointing out how wretched housing, poor education and racism by officials left young Muslims feeling hopeless, angry and with a desire to strike back.

The film was called La Haine (Hate) and was the story of three young men in one of the wretched housing projects outside Paris, commonly referred to as la banlieue.

While agreeing with Will Hutton that "let us build homes of which we can be proud" ("Political cowardice stops us from solving our wretched housing crisis", Comment), he might have mentioned one word: productivity.

Last year the Washington Post exposed the wretched slum housing conditions in which veterans were forced to dwell in Washington DC.

The women and children were asleep; several men, their backs leaning against the walls of the wretched little houses, stared at me.

The district is poor and overcrowded, a shantytown of wretched little houses, with no fresh air and often no electricity; it is dust, stench, and insects.

Dickens's hearse glided up the stairs in Scrooge's wretched old house, but it is there.

We get out of bed at whatever wretched hotel is housing us for the evening, meet in the lobby for straight-from-the-plastic-wrap danishes and ten-day-old hard-boiled eggs, then split into one of two vans or the bus.

Thousands more Jaffnians live in wretched huts, their houses appropriated by the army for its garrisons.

A wide arc of Victorian inner suburb vanished under council housing so wretched it has since had to be rebuilt.

Student housing is wretched (Mr. Pomfret shares a small dorm room with seven men), the bathrooms are unspeakable, and the climate of repression, both political and sexual, is stifling.