sink estate

Go to any large white sink estate: it's the same story.

Sink estates are found in urban areas around the country.

I lived on a sink estate in central London with my son for twelve years.

Most children from sink estates can go a life time and not even be aware any of those things exist.

Invest in a bus ticket to your local sink estate.

Harris shows that desperate families don't only exist on sink estates.

A lot of my work was delivering stationery to community centres in what are known as sink estates.

Finally, it is well documented what the issues are concerning the underclass and sink estates.

Strip away the costumes and these could be the inhabitants of a modern-day sink estate.

But I would settle with personal bankruptcy, sale of all his assets and then even let him rent a council house on some sink estate.

Yes, children are often raised on sink estates to be unsociable - they can't function outside of their estate, let alone in an academic environment.

Many people on sink estates are unaware of just how poor they are, either financially or materially.

A sink estate is a British council housing estate characterised by high levels of economic and social deprivation.

Go to almost any city and you find sink estates where you get the feeling that the council hates the place and the people too.

A failing company is one thing, a failing secondary school on a sink estate is quite another.

Basically young people raised by 3rd or 4th generation sink estate dwellers ran amok due to essentially not caring about anything.

Today the estates can be described as Sink estates and are awaiting a massive regeneration project.

A woman on the dole in a Sunderland sink estate tells me she has only voluntarily paid rent for two weeks in three years.

What would catch the attention of Ugandan journalists invited to live in a London suburb, or a sink estate?

Sink estate may refer to behavioural sink, which is a characteristic exhibited by animals forced to live in overcrowded conditions.

The answer to this was non-selective comprehensive schools, uncontroversial in provincial Britain but not in cities with sink estates and mass immigration.

Such estates are not always high crime areas although there is a strong correlation between crime rates and sink estates in large urban areas.

They don't, they live in 1 room with said sprog and parental disapproval for years then maybe get bunged on a sink estate to rot alone.

Born in London, he grew up on the tough Mozart estate, which was at the time a notorious inner-London sink estate.

The origin and meaning of the term 'sink estate' is unknown, although it is believed it may refer to being at the depths of society.