boarded-up house
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house
noun
uk/haʊs/us/haʊs/
a building that people, usually one family, ...
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(Definition ofhousefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In those days, there was hardly a street in my constituency without aboarded-uphouse.
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Everyone takes shelter in aboarded-uphousewith a hidden attic.
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It was amazing that the council did not know what it had bought—we did not know to whom the boarded-up houses belonged.
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The boarded-up houses are not the type of accommodation that anyone wanting a decent home and standard of living would want to purchase.
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That inaction helps to breed current and future crime by failing to tackle boarded-up houses and burning houses and cars.
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Vacant, derelict sites, boarded-up houses, abandoned factories, disused canals and litter all combine to create an atmosphere of despair.
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They include boarded-up houses and abandoned streets, and they are magnets for petty crime and vandalism.
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There are boarded-up houses, incidents of vandalism, and people living in derelict houses by night and stealing out during the day.
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We do not have boarded-up houses or blocks of flats; we have boarded-up streets.
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If problems such as boarded-up houses and rubbish in gardens are tackled on their own, the problem returns.
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Recently we counted almost 100 boarded-up houses on that estate.
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Crowds gathered to watch the pulling down of two blocks of flats, and residents thought that that represented an end to living next to boarded-up houses and vandalised garage blocks.
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Therefore, some tenants have the problem of living in between empty, boarded-up houses, which are a magnet for vandalism, criminal damage and all the rest of it.
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Some of our estates, with row upon row of boarded-up houses, are a most depressing sight, and a powerful condemnation of what has happened in the past four years.
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One can go for miles and see boarded-up houses, shops and hotels in places where hundreds of thousands of people used to spend their summer holidays.
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There will be more and more boarded-up houses, especially as it will take longer for local authorities to get around to rehabilitation now that their resources have been cut.
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