To some, squatters are urban heroes who drive drug dealers from abandoned buildings and bring dilapidated housing back to life.

These concerns of residents in the area include illegal drug activity, trash, abandoned vehicles and dilapidated housing.

Very poor people in dilapidated inner-city housing are the ones who should worry the most.

In 2008 and 2009 new condominiums replaced dilapidated housing next to the train station.

The loans under that program, which are made by banks, pay for the purchase and repair of dilapidated housing.

Many of them live in old, dilapidated inner-city housing with peeling lead-based paint.

The social ills that accompany poverty - substance abuse, violent crime and dilapidated housing - have often cast the area in a negative light.

How can you be condemning a person if you make him fix dilapidated housing?

Those paying high proportions of their income for rent also are more likely to live in dilapidated housing.

Despite the improvements, the neighborhood still contains some abandoned and dilapidated housing, especially towards the south.