Squalor

squalor [ SKWOL-er ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1.(n.) a dirty or wretched condition
2. (n.) a miserable state

EXAMPLE 1 :
People commented on the squalor of the slum but no one did anything to uplift the people living there.

EXAMPLE 2 :
Except that the dirty secret lies not in Home Office archives but in the numbers of asylum seekers’ children held in captivity and in the migrant workers living in squalor and penury because the law allows gangmasters to exploit them.