The 'at-risk homeless' includes people who are living in substandard or unsafe housing and persons who are spending a very large proportion of their monthly income on housing.

Pervasive and persistent poverty, fragmented families, chronic abuse and neglect, inadequate and unsafe housing and schools, lack of job opportunities and racism - these things are as lethal as minefields.

Of the world's 5.8 billion people (increasing by 86 million a year) more than 600 million are homeless or living in inadequate, unsafe and unhealthy housing, about one-sixth of them women and their children.

Since then, the city has been criticized for crowding immigrants into unsafe housing.

In Illinois, claims involving false promises, failure to pay wages, unsafe housing, dangerous field conditions, illegal wage deductions take months to resolve.

And the disaster they bred fulfilled officials' worst fears about the unregulated and often unsafe housing that has cropped up in the borough over the last decade.

Surprisingly, immigrants from the former Soviet Union live in neighborhoods that rank particularly well with respect to crime, disease and unsafe housing - even when compared with native-born whites.

The zoo was repeatedly reported for inadequate and unsafe housing for the animals, as well as insufficient water and food.

In the labor unrest of the era, the shabby and unsafe housing, which miners often shared with their families, were a frequent source of complaint.

Child welfare officials said some safety issues, like unsafe housing, could be changed to improve conditions for children.