Sentences with phrase «of dilapidated housing»

The houses belonged to his mother, an Irish - American woman named Rosemarie Martin, who bought a handful of dilapidated houses by the seashore in Long Island, hoping to rent them.

And despite having an eye like Walker Evans's — witness the somber, still images of dilapidated houses, churches, food shacks, and deserted Main Streets that multiply throughout the film — Wilkerson isn't interested in capturing a stable picture of this life.

For instance, if I were teaching students about the Great Depression, I might post a photograph of a family sitting in front of a dilapidated house or farm or children in ragged clothes searching for water in the mid-West (see diagram).

They claim they were promised new homes by Minister Wilfred Elrington; however, when the new houses which were built right in front of their dilapidated houses, they were given to other persons.

Building upon his earlier casts of dilapidated houses such as House for which she won the 1993 Turner Prize, Whiteread further challenged the preconceived notion of what is considered «inside» or «outside» in the creation of a sculpture.

Not exact matches

The Stirling Street site subject to the application is home to a pair of dilapidated and empty house - office conversions.

This historic but once - dilapidated enclave of small 18th - century houses and cobbled streets in the Green Point district, has blossomed since the 1990s, and it now bears all the hallmarks of gentrification.

Even after the bust, gentrifiers snap up this kind of house in dilapidated neighborhoods.

Few houses of any size were visible as we raced along the straight highway, just clusters of dilapidated shacks.

Strategists nod to her recent appointment of L. Joy Williams, the president of the Brooklyn NAACP and board chair of Higher Heights, as a senior adviser, and Nixon's campaign launch in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a majority black neighborhood that encapsulates many of the flashpoints in the Democratic primary: It's the poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn and among the poorest in New York City, it's at the center of the affordable housing crisis, and residents are prepping for the 15 - month L train shutdown in early 2019, a symptom of New York City's dilapidated subway system that Nixon's branded» #CuomosMTA.»

«This is sort of like having a dilapidated house, and putting really nice snazzy vinyl siding and new windows on it,» McMahon said.

November 29, 2016 - New York State Homes and Community Renewal Commissioner James S. Rubin today announced a $ 2 million pilot program to address the prevalence of older, dilapidated mobile and manufactured homes and preserve an important source of affordable housing in New York.

More than a dozen dilapidated buildings have been demolished to make way for the project, part of the state's ongoing five - year, $ 20 billion plan to provide affordable housing across New York.

Lamphear Court Apartments: Consistent with the City of Corning's Master Plan and the Corning Housing Strategy, the new complex will significantly improve available housing options, and provide energy - efficient, modern apartments in an area that formerly contained antiquated and dilapidated hHousing Strategy, the new complex will significantly improve available housing options, and provide energy - efficient, modern apartments in an area that formerly contained antiquated and dilapidated hhousing options, and provide energy - efficient, modern apartments in an area that formerly contained antiquated and dilapidated housinghousing.

Where Cuomo barely shakes hands, Nixon hugs — like in Crown Heights during a tour of NYCHA housing, when she embraced a crying mother while blasting the governor and mayor for the dilapidated conditions.

The saga of SPURA has come to a climax with Community Board 3 voting this Monday night on guidelines for a mixed - use development that would replace dilapidated parking lots with multi-income housing, retail properties, green spaces, cultural / educational institutions, and more.

The Pitch: After her family moves to a dilapidated old house in the middle of nowhere, a teenage girl (Stewart) realizes the place is haunted by pissed - off ghosts that only she and her baby brother can see.

A young man sits on a bed in a dilapidated house, looking into the camera of his laptop and trying to convince an unseen people on the other end that they should pay to watch him pleasure himself and maybe send him a gift if they like it, and on the other end of that online chat, a female reporter does the one thing the young man doesn't expect: ask him about his life.

The picture's protagonist is Dorothea Fields, a middle - aged chain - smoker who owns the dilapidated rooming house where the bulk of the story is set.

Coleman said the state takeover fails to address the underlying issues of the city's poor economy, lack of public safety, dilapidated housing and shriveled tax base.

Tomboyish and shy, Anna soon makes a mysterious friend named Marnie, who lives in a house on the marsh that changes between dilapidated and abandoned, to vibrant and full of life.

In many legends and the fantasies evolving out of them, women like her were often seen entering and leaving that increasingly dilapidated house in the middle of the night, their skin - crawling screams enough to make a person's heart stop.

There was a rumor on the street that Doc had a quantity of good pharmaceutical dope secreted away somewhere in the dilapidated boarding house.

He was in the attic room at Mailund, that dilapidated white turn - of - the - century house, where the Dreyer - Brodal family spent their summers.

Renovating or rehabilitating a dilapidated house or a property that needs a lot of TLC can be rewarding, but it takes hard work, time, and effort.

They dogs spent part of their lifes chained to dilapidated dog houses.

What you didn't read about was a back story of the old, dilapidated house and how this remodel changed the life of one of its past tenants.

South Africa is a first world country in the midst of a third world — just down the road from the glitzy malls, BMWs and upmarket mansions are dilapidated tin shacks and RDP houses

Among the highlights are: the mountains and river estuaries of Bute Inlet; the wildflowers and birds on Mitlenatch Island; Kingcome Inlet's vast delta and waterfalls; the bighouse and totem remains on Village Island, in the Broughtons; the pebble beaches of Yuquot, at Nootka Sound; the contemporary totems and carvings at Fort Rupert, on north Vancouver Island; the hidden 1890s grave for two children on Redonda Island; the dilapidated boat houses overhanging Sointula's beaches; Sointula's whale rubbing beach; the old mine at Suquash, near Port Hardy; Ripple Rock; and more!

The problem, though, is that we're reaching a point where the proverbial house is getting dilapidated and all that's suggested is a fresh coat of paint.

While players explore the dilapidated Baker house and its surroundings, they'll be stalked by the Bakers themselves, who are ruthless and pretty much immortal beings that deal tons of damage and will pursue the player if they see Ethan.

Urging you to explore deeper, even if your senses are telling you, «perhaps I won't go into that dilapidated dark spooky house» But thanks to the structure of the game, the risk / reward payoff generally makes you face your fears and do it anyway.

Capcom did a nice job of setting up the Resident Evil demo booth at the Expo, building a creepy, dilapidated house right on the show floor.

You play an unnamed man trapped in a dilapidated house, looking for ways out — what you find is a video cassette of a paranormal investigation programme filmed at the very same location.

Development on New Holland Island — which is in the process of being turned into a tourist destination, with hip restaurants and hotels, after decades of housing dilapidated 18th century military bases — is backed by Millhouse Capital, which was founded by Roman Abramovich, husband to Garage founder Dasha Zhukova.

And House on Alley 6th Avenue is a photograph shot from behind, which depicts a small, old, dilapidated wooden house with a battered blue fence, similar houses surround it; a line of mountains against a cloudy sky is visible beyond the peak of the house's House on Alley 6th Avenue is a photograph shot from behind, which depicts a small, old, dilapidated wooden house with a battered blue fence, similar houses surround it; a line of mountains against a cloudy sky is visible beyond the peak of the house's house with a battered blue fence, similar houses surround it; a line of mountains against a cloudy sky is visible beyond the peak of the house's house's roof.

Naval battles, entropic struggles between helicopters, ferris wheels and libidinous octopi, houses so dilapidated they must derive from nightmare movies, and tree stumps that wink at innocent passersby are some of the peculiar delights and cautious reveries this show permits.

The current iteration of the event, led by the curator Carolyn Christov - Bakargiev and known typographically as documenta (13), spreads across more than 30 venues, including museums, parks, dilapidated houses, derelict cinemas, the grand ballroom of a downtrodden hotel, a department store, a parking garage, a train station, a hospital and a bunker.

Areas of artistic production, such as basements, warehouses and studios, are recalled by the dilapidated garage that houses Cherry & Lucic in Northeast Portland.

Calder agrees to a trade of three mobiles for François Premier, a dilapidated seventeenth - century stone house built adjoining a cliff on Jean's property.

For 12 Ballads, much of the raw building material from the house at 6901 S. Dorchester Ave. was transported to Germany and used in the partial restoration of the dilapidated historic building in Kassel called the Huguenot House — where the carpenters and students who were involved in this effort lived as part of the project — symbolically mending one neglected cultural history with anohouse at 6901 S. Dorchester Ave. was transported to Germany and used in the partial restoration of the dilapidated historic building in Kassel called the Huguenot House — where the carpenters and students who were involved in this effort lived as part of the project — symbolically mending one neglected cultural history with anoHouse — where the carpenters and students who were involved in this effort lived as part of the project — symbolically mending one neglected cultural history with another.

For his enchanting new installation at London's Victoria Miro Gallery, opening this weekend, artist Alex Hartley has built what appears to be a dilapidated house in the middle of its waterside garden.

The house they worked on was quite dilapidated, but it did contain a lot of intact terracotta tiles, which they decided to recycle into a sunshade for the home.

Named in recognition of the artistic and academic heritage of the area, The Arts House has been meticulously restored from its former dilapidated state to offer beautifully finished bright, spacious apartments.

Currently, millions of U.S. homes have moderate to severe physical housing problems, including dilapidated structure; roofing problems; heating, plumbing, and electrical deficiencies; water leaks and intrusion; pests; damaged paint; and high radon gas levels.

When all phases are completed in about four years, several blocks of dilapidated and abandoned housing will have been replaced by 150 units of town houses, small single - family houses, and apartments.

Photos show a dilapidated white house that looks straight out of the post-apocalyptic film «Escape from L.A.,» with stained walls, exposed pipes and moldy floors.

Seok Swycher, the current owner of the Elsworthy Road house, told the Daily Mail: «When we bought the house more than 30 years ago, it was dilapidated and was three separate flats.

As a lover of old movies my mind immediately went to «It's a wonderful life» where Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed fix up this dilapidated old house with little money and lots of kids.

See how a combination of family hand - me - downs, savvy purchases, and elbow grease transformed this dilapidated 1820s house into a charming retreat filled with flea market finds.