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Aug 25, 2023 · Six years after Myanmar’s brutal crackdown, Al Jazeera explores the current living conditions in Rohingya refugee camps.
- Hanna Duggal
Jan 29, 2024 · A group of “hidden homeless” tenants living in “uninhabitable” temporary housing have written to Croydon Council to demand better living conditions amid complaints of pests, bedbug-ridden furniture and cramped accommodation.
- Chaminda Jayanetti
Jul 1, 2020 · The lack of space and cramped living conditions has played a big role in causing health problems for these huge numbers of people during lockdown. More than half of those (52%) who said their homes weren’t big enough said they’d suffered from health problems:
Migrants, students, and families are forced into cramped living conditions by the immense pressures on housing in growing cities. Homes are illegally subdivided into increasingly tiny units to accommodate booming populations; often this involves haphazard electricity and plumbing arrangements, raising serious safety concerns.
Aug 1, 2017 · Photographer Benny Lam has spent the past four years documenting the cramped living conditions in Hong Kong, which has driven many into renting 15-square-foot wood planked spaces called “Coffin Cubicles.”
May 8, 2020 · Figures suggest coronavirus is hitting deprived communities hardest, with cramped living conditions held up as one possible explanation. How are families in overcrowded housing coping with...
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Oct 3, 2016 · Poor living conditions can serve as a mechanism of social stratification, affecting children’s wellbeing and resulting in the intergenerational transmission of social inequality. This paper reports an investigation of housing crowding on children’s academic achievement, behavior, and health in the U.S. and Los Angeles, a city with ...
