Prisons were overcrowded.

They worked long hours in stifling conditions, lived in overcrowded and unsanitary housing, and experienced little growth in earnings. Some indicators, such as workers average height, suggest that standards of living may have even declined for a while.

We cannot have many millions of people on regular food handouts in overcrowded camps.

Prisons remain overcrowded, with more than 7,000 detainees occupying space for a maximum capacity of 3,750 inmates.

The region's penal institutions are poorly resourced, overcrowded and increasingly vulnerable to the spread of HIV AIDS.

45 percent of the 14 million people who live in Delhi live in unauthorized slums, which are chronically overcrowded.

With a view to improving the situation in the country's overcrowded prisons, his Government had freed 500 common criminals.

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

The makeshift camps are extremely overcrowded, and outbreaks of malaria, cholera, typhoid, respiratory infections and other diseases may therefore result.

He was kept in an overcrowded cell with 100 other inmates, had no bed to sleep on, and received inadequate food.

Housing

Little efforts were made by the occupying Power to improve the poor condition of 12 overcrowded schools in the occupied Golan's remaining villages.

In Southern Darfur, agencies continue to encounter obstacles to the relocation of some of the internally displaced persons in the overcrowded Kalma camp.

The situation of the refugees in the occupied Palestinian territory was dismal, characterized by high unemployment, extreme poverty, overcrowded shelters and inadequate infrastructure.

Assisted housing

Housing legislation

C. Housing

12.8.1 Housing

1.45 Insufficient project funding for school construction and upgrading of camp infrastructure contributes to overcrowded schoolrooms, poor environmental health conditions and dilapidation of refugee shelters.

(a) Appropriate housing

Housing versus Habitat

Measuring housing needs

Land and housing

(e) Housing Loan

CMHC's housing finance mandate is to promote housing affordability and choice and to contribute to the well being of the housing sector in the national economy.

Donna McEvoy, housing manager at Cornwall Housing, said she feared it might be beyond saving.

At the federal level, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) is Canada's national housing agency.

Right to adequate housing

Right to adequate housing

Housing and land rights

Liveable housing and sanitation.

(iii) Housing and Household

Citizens for Decent Housing

Commonwealth State Housing Agreement

In improving housing for the urban poor, Governments can assume two functions facilitating housing provision and improvement by individuals and private entrepreneurs and directly providing affordable housing to the poor.

Public housing agencies could promote better housing by providing credit to the poor, who usually lack access to the formal housing finance market, through, for example, affordable mortgages and microcredit schemes.

Is Europe s Housing Market Next?

Improving housing affordability and choice

The right to adequate housing

The right to adequate housing

Ministry Housing and Public Works

Recommendation 3 Mainstream housing rights

Guarantee the equal enjoyment of the right to adequate housing for citizens and non citizens, especially by avoiding segregation in housing and ensuring that housing agencies refrain from engaging in discriminatory practices

Furthermore, the poor quality of some education, resulting from irrelevant and obsolete curricula, overcrowded classrooms, untrained teachers and gender discrimination, cause high dropout and repetition rates especially among girls.

Most administrative arrangements relating to social housing programs and delivery are governed by federal provincial territorial agreements on social housing.