a ghetto
A place that looks like it was hit by a tornado and then set on fire. Or a thing that’s so broken it’s barely holding together.
That old apartment building is a real-life ghetto. It’s falling apart like it’s tired of being alive.
His phone is a ghetto version of a phone. It doesn’t even ring.
The school looked like a ghetto. The walls were falling off, and the floor was made of hope.