Unsafe Living Conditions Quotes

When I was born my parents lived in a flat so small that it now legally can't be rented out as a dwelling.

Southwest Detroit has been through hell (excuse my directness) with Matty Moroun, his Bridge Company, and all his fancy-named subsidiaries. From blighted homes that my boys have to walk by to allowing his trucks to rumble down our residential streets, passing our parks, schools, and homes - we have had it.

The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.

Not only does filth, overcrowding, lack of privacy and domesticity, lack of ventilation and lighting, and absence of supervision and of sanitary regulation still characterize the greater number of the tenements; but they are built to a greater height in stories

The more you look into health and health inequalities, you realize that a lot of it is not due to a particular disease - it's really linked to underlying societal issues such as poverty, inequity, lack of access to safe drinking water and housing. And these are all the things we focus on at CARE.

How does one endure in a place they shouldn't be condemned to live in? You could take that same question and apply it to any number of neighborhoods in any number of cities.

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration.

Flint is a very tough place to live. The environment is definitely a different type of environment than anywhere else in the country, I feel like.

I grew up in a semi-slum area in Gavipuram, Guttahalli.

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.

People have posted my personal information on the Internet. This has resulted in additional emails, calls, and threats. My family and I were forced to move out of our home.

People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

People who live inside garbage piles - that should not be happening.

Migrants are essentially escaping from countries with dysfunctional social models.

The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.

We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.

People shouldn't be living in certain places - on earthquake faults or on flood plains. But they do, and there are consequences.

More than a billion people in the world live in slums today, roughly one out of every three inhabitants of cities.

India's infrastructure is pathetic, with frequent electric power breakdowns even in metropolitan cities, dangerously unhealthy water supply in urban areas, a galloping rate of HIV infection, and gaping potholes that dot our national highways.

These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.

For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.

Why does 80 per cent of East Delhi live in unauthorised colonies. No one wants to live in unauthorised colonies due to issues of sanitary and hygiene... people stay in unauthorised colonies because they have no other choice, and that really needs to be changed.

Most of us don't have to worry about being shot if we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.