Urba Urban Poverty

There are three types of poverty which are known as suburban, rural and urban poverty. Each type of poverty is classified by the area in which the poverty occurs. Suburban poverty is the largest type of poverty since it has had the largest setting for population for the last ten years. In addition, it is also known as the hidden poverty because it takes place in suburbs where people are mainly living in houses. People would not think of someone living in a house as living in poverty, but these houses are merely a façade to what is actually going on in a person’s life. People renting houses or who own a house can be at the poverty level and just barely getting by. Furthermore, people living in this circumstance will try to fit in and disguise their situation because it brings them shame. In one of the clips, a father who was living in a house with his daughters could only afford the rent by doing the renovations on the home he was renting. This lowered his rent payment and made it more affordable for him. Also, the father had to go to the soup kitchen each month because he could not afford to go grocery shopping whenever he needed. …show more content…
In urban areas, it is very clear and visible as to who is poor and who is not. In the poverty stricken urban areas there are problems with gangs, violence and crime. One example is Camden, New Jersey, which is the poorest city in the country. This was a city that people took great lengths and pain to ignore or drive past. The clip shows two children living in Camden who, in their young, lives had already witnessed murders happening right outside their home. In Camden, there were bullet holes in the church windows and sometimes drug deals would occur right as the police were passing by. In this situation, the police were outnumbered by the drug dealers and