urban poverty
Metropolitan financial hardship
Urban poverty is the condition of being poor in a city, where deprivation takes particular forms: overcrowded housing, lack of green space, exposure to pollution, and dependence on cash economies for needs that rural poor might meet through subsistence.
Urban poverty concentrates in certain neighborhoods, creating visible inequality.
The term often implies systemic factors—housing costs, transportation barriers, limited job access—that distinguish city poverty from rural hardship.
- homelessnessLacking permanent residence
- overcrowdingCapacity exceeded dangerously
- slumsImpoverished, crowded districts
- gentrificationWealthy influx displacing locals
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
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