Possible Clues:

• Hang in a low place?
• Area of rundown housing
• Depression not ending for poor neighbourhood
• Endless downturn results in urban blight
• Run-down part of a city
• Poor-quality accommodation, last to go in recession
• Poor area with big business failure unending
• Squalid place where many people live, fifty in all
• Hardly a high-rent district
• Poverty-stricken area