Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The report, compiled from 1970 Census figures, shows that 13.1 million families live in physically substandard housing units, are overcrowded, or pay an excessively high percentage of their incomes for rent.
The report's figures are drawn from households with incomes under $10,000 a year. For this group, an overcrowded unit is one with at least three persons and at least 1.5 persons per room.
Some Japanese complain that the project is too costly, even for prosperous Japan, and that the money would be better spent on the country's own overcrowded universities. To be sure, none of the other interested nations felt that they could afford anything like the Japanese pitch. Which is...
Ba. young Vietnamese cabin-boy, left his ship in New York just before the outbreak of World War I and went to live briefly in Harlem, which was already a lower-class black slum. This quiet, sensitive young man was only in Harlem briefly, but he carefully observed the overcrowded...
Two ex-convicts pleaded with 40 students in Phillips Brooks House last night to help re-channel some of the economic and educational resources of Harvard to overcrowded and unfit prisons in Massachusetts.