They are housed six or seven to a room, hygiene is poor, and there is considerable promiscuity.

Ghana apos s application of the housing indicators shows increasing overcrowding, declining quality and declining access to services.

Now remember, boys, we're in a crowded neighborhood.

The Government also continued the Family Housing Programme, which it started in 1996 to ease overcrowded shelters and private houses.

Isn't that right, Harold? Ten minutes in a crowded hotel room.

The third and least likely cause of core housing need in 2001 was crowded living conditions (suitability problems).

Priority is given to families living in shelters that are structurally unsafe, in which unhygienic conditions have led to medical problems, or which raise serious social considerations, such as overcrowding.

Potential homelessness may be interpreted to mean individuals living in overcrowded conditions (three or more persons in a room), in primitive housing units or in condemned buildings.

Overcrowded housing tends to accelerate the deterioration of dwellings and increases the risk of the transmission of diseases and the promulgation of domestic violence and other abuses and violations.

303. Other health hazards arise in lodging houses. A large number of young people live around universities, industrial zones, etc. in crowded urban settings.

The Government Procurator of Moundou allegedly informed his superiors that Mbaïlassem Gédéon had died of suffocation owing to the heat in a crowded cell intended only for eight persons.

The proportion of local authority housing has declined to some 18 per cent of the total stock in 1995 and, by contrast, the housing association sector has grown.

This was particularly distributed to poor people living in high density flats.

Cities in the developing world are characterized by inadequately planned and overcrowded settlements without access to even basic urban services.

These are to enable disadvantaged groups, young people and refugees to establish themselves in the housing market improve the existing housing conditions, especially for persons living under poor, cramped conditions adapt housing to the needs of the elderly and the handicapped and the building of ecologically sound houses and residential environments.

Home ownership is supported by mortgage interest relief, cash grants to first time purchasers of newly built dwellings, the absence of a general property tax on dwellings, sale of public housing to tenants and the shared ownership system.

Crowded?

Some of the prisoners, who appeared rather fearful, complained, however, of overcrowding and insufficient food.

Did your stepfather own the house you live in?

Their cells were tiny and crowded. (Ha aretz, Jerusalem Post, 20 May)

It's about three miles out of Nairobi, and it's a mile long and about two tenths of a mile wide, where over half a million people live crammed in these little tin shacks, generation after generation, renting them, often eight or 10 people to a room.

Poor and inadequate housing conditions, characterized by overcrowding and lack of privacy, sanitation and basic services exacerbate women's vulnerability to domestic violence.

The train's crowded.

The train is quite crowded.

A right old squash in there, eh?

The objective of the Global Strategy for Shelter is to facilitate adequate shelter for all by the year 2000.

(a) Adequate shelter for all, also incorporating the monitoring of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000

Prison conditions are harsh prisoners live in overcrowded and poorly ventilated cells which they generally leave for only two hours a day.

Almost two thirds (66 percent) of Canadian households own their own homes.

(c) Habitability many of the studies reveal that indigenous peoples often live in overcrowded conditions.

Strategy for the progressive realization of the right to adequate housing

At the same time, 68 per cent of housing with running water was in urban areas, while 59.2 per cent of rural homes had sanitary wells and 36 per cent got their water from surface wells, streams, tanker trucks and rainwater 63.3 per cent of rural homes had holes in the ground or latrines and 25 per cent had no sanitation.

It's not very good. It's cluttered.

But the stage is crowded.

On sunny days, the beach is very crowded.

A heavily crowded place.

Those citizens who do not own housing units live in rented ones, with relatives or in nursing homes for the elderly, etc.

(a) The right to own property number of rooms and size of housing unit, owned by one individual or one family domicile of citizens and location of real estate properties owned by them, etc.

279. The 451,000 public residences in Denmark are owned by approximately 700 housing associations all of which are operated on a non profit basis.

The latter ordered the inmates of the prison wing concerned to be locked up in their overcrowded cells, after which they threw in tear gas grenades, setting off a large fire.

A trifle. FATHER You're overcrowded, aren't you?

Brighton's not that crowded.

I wish I'd have known it.

it is very crowded at your end?

The room was crowded with guests.