living conditions
How one dwells
Living conditions are the circumstances in which people live—housing quality, sanitation, safety, crowding, access to utilities.
The phrase typically appears when these circumstances are poor or contested: The report documented squalid living conditions in the refugee camp.
Discussions of living conditions often concern prisons, military barracks, factory housing, or impoverished communities.
- human dignityIntrinsic worth of persons
- quality of lifeGeneral life satisfaction
- sanitationCleanliness for public health
- affordable housingShelter scaled to earnings
- tenant rightsLessee's legal entitlements
habitability · cramped quarters · overcrowding · housing · basic needs · bare necessities · hygiene · transitional housing · social welfare · slum clearance · amenities · roof over head · ventilation · public health · dwelling · roof · poverty alleviation · utilities
- conditionsmedical condition, fair condition, good condition, critical condition, weather
- wartime moralemorale, patriotism, war effort, fighting spirit, national unity
- housingapartments, home, house, houses, homes
living conditionssqualor
Dirty, degraded living conditions
poverty · destitution · misery · deprivation · substandard housing
living conditionshostile environment
Surroundings posing active threats
working conditions · homelessness · wilderness · incarceration · displacement
living, conditions, livestock, liveliness, outlived, outliving, livability