It is the poorest section of the city. The houses are dilapidated and most of the area does not have a proper sewage system. Cars drive warily through streets riddled with potholes. 
That could be anywhere in the Ukraine, but having been in Simferopol a few months ago, I'd say they are better off than 99% of the Ukraine.
Ukrainians mainly think the tatary - many of whom recently arrived from Russia and Kazakhstan - are just another chernozhopa looking for a free lunch. A friend of mine who is an ethnic Ukrainian and came to Kyiv from Barnaul, Siberia, ten years ago was very anti-Tatar. No one paid her a kopeck for the land her family lost in the 1920s; everything she had she worked for and earned on her own.
Besides, if you go back far enough, any of these so-called "Tatar" lands belonged to Slavs first. In the Crimea as recently as a thousand years ago it was all Greek.
"No one paid her a kopeck for the land her family lost in the 1920s; everything she had she worked for and earned on her own."
The same should be true for the Tatars. I believe they should have the right to return to the Crimea, but they should work, they shouldn't have a free lunch. No one should.
"Besides, if you go back far enough, any of these so-called "Tatar" lands belonged to Slavs first. In the Crimea as recently as a thousand years ago it was all Greek."
WHat do you mean? Are you referring to Tumortkan Rus? At most about hald of the Crimea was claimed by Syvatoslav, but it was never significantly settled. Anyone with a iota of knowledge aobut the situation knows that Crimea was originally Greek.