Local housing authorities have been compelled by the housing crisis to make offers of sub-standard accommodation.住房危机迫使当地的几个房管部门提供不够标准的住房。Residents in general are poor and undereducated, and live in sub-standard housing.居民们普遍都很贫穷，受教育程度低，居住条件较差。Most of the housing in the area is sub-standard and nothing is being done to improve it.该地区大多数住房都质量低劣，也没人采取什么措施去加以改善。