At the end of 1939, 2,000 to 3,000 Jews, deported from Suwałki and Serock, arrived in the town, increasing the misery in the already overcrowded Jewish quarter.

Citywide, 15 percent of New Yorkers in rented housing lived in overcrowded quarters in 1990, compared with 9 percent in 1980.

The party shifted to the center of the overcrowded quarters, where a group of eight Mets players and coaches gathered for an impromptu photograph.

Many newcomers live in temporary lodging, often with extended families in overcrowded rented quarters.

Library officials, however, criticized their new home as "an entirely unsuitable building, where its work is done in unsafe, unsanitary and overcrowded quarters, temporary make-shifts."

The scarcity of housing means, aside from the very visible misery of the homeless, the less visible problems of those living in unhealthy, overcrowded quarters.

Since we were last in Egypt the Museum had been moved from its overcrowded quarters at Boulaq to the Palace of Gizeh.

The stories they told - of unsanitary conditions, overcrowded quarters and other indignities - made him shudder, Mr. Pierre said.

Many of the women seeking services from the church live in overcrowded quarters with their spouses and children, and sometimes become the victims of domestic violence, Ms. Massa said.

Prisoners live in overcrowded quarters, are given a few minutes of sunshine each day, and often have inadequate food, former inmates have said.