overcrowding

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Like other reformers, including Catherine Bauer and Edith Elmer Wood, Simkhovitch saw slums through the narrow prism of their deplorable physical conditions, such as overcrowding.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

Detention facilities are seeing more overcrowding and understaffing as the Trump administration ramps up enforcement in the interior of the country, experts said.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2026

But Karachi, home to more than 20 million, is especially notorious for poor construction, illegal extensions, ageing infrastructure, overcrowding, and lax enforcement of building regulations.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

Volunteers told The Times in 2022 there were dogs at the South L.A. shelter that hadn’t been walked in over a month amid an ongoing overcrowding and staffing crisis.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

The blanket was a poor threadbare affair compared with the ones we had given up, but at least the overcrowding produced its own warmth.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom