Word: sub-standard
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...Italics" where people working in the factories during the day could return to the language, food and customs of the "Old Country" at night. Boston's North End retains this flavor to this day. In these Little Italies, non-resident landlords took advantage of the immigrant, overcharging him for sub-standard housing. This was unjust, but there were no laws to prevent it. For many, much of their 60-hour a week salary as a factory worker, often in what we would call sweatshops, went towards paying the rent. This forced women and children to work under many conditions. Education...
Harvard showed the effects of its lay-off against Penn even though it had little trouble defeating the Quakers. Playing under sub-standard conditions--the Quakers' Zamboni broke down and the players had to scrape the ice with shovels between periods--Harvard suffered through two sloppy periods before regaining its sharpness in the final period...
...percent of the residents of Boston are Negro. Almost the entire Negro population is concentrated in Roxbury, part of the South End and, increasingly, North Dorchester. The Negro in this ghetto is subjected to inferior schooling, sub-standard housing, restricted job opportunities, and a lifetime of underachievement...
...filter-down process" might he heat, as well. Since moderate-income homes are noised fairly close in what the nook are poy'ng for sub-standard housing." Weaver said Lower-income groups could move in before the housing had drastically depreciated...
...recommendations in the Committee's report deal, necessarily, only with the pernicious effects of housing segregation. To improve the condition of buildings in the ghetto, the legislature might pass a law (like one in New York) enabling the city to collect rents on sub-standard dwellings and to use the money for correction of building code violations. Among welcome, if unlikely, actions governmental bodies might take are the building of more urban renewal projects for low income families in Roxbury and the redrawing of school lines to end de facto segregation in education...