ticky-tack

adjective

1. shoddy and unimaginatively designed; flimsy and dull: a row of new, ticky-tacky bungalows.
2. tacky2.

noun

3. ticky-tacky material or something made of it, especially housing.

n.“inferior, cheap material,” 1962 (in song “Little Boxes” by U.S. political folk-singer Malvina Reynolds, 1900-1978), reduplication of tacky.