The housing is actually quite nice, good flats in a pleasant location generally. No huge tower blocks. But the residents seem to spoil the neighbourhod, eg chucking furniture out onto the front 'garden', (weed plot), used needles lying about, dirty nappies chucked over the fence etc. The young women I visited (girlfriends of 'my' prisoners left high and dry after the Police had wheeled away their man for the umpteenth time ) saw nothing wrong in the filthy and untidy rooms they lived in. I used to smile, they were often busy varnishing their nails beautifully, while all around was muck and mess, and the babies crawling about with filthy little faces!