The impression is more like that of a rather slummy air raid shelter with three bunks; one double, one up and one down, and one single.
Now there is new housing, but the schools, which are just as slummy, are still there because there is no money available in any programme for replacing them.
There has been the inevitable deterioration in places where there is much slum property which has become more "slummy" and required more drastic attention from the local authorities.
They were real, dilapidated, derelict, slummy places.
This is very slummy property.
English cities, even when they were slummy, had certain specific qualities: they consisted of little, low houses which had a certain domesticity of scale and of feeling.
I asked what percentage of the people in those slummy areas were problem families.
There were many poor and even slummy properties on the estate.
