A Ghetto
What is poverty? Poverty is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as a lack of money or material possessions. Therefore, poverty is hunger, lack of shelter, being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is powerlessness, lack of representation and freedom.
Poverty has many faces, changing from place to place, and person to person. There are many problems that people living in poverty face such as, inadequate housing, poor nutrition and poor education.
Housing cost are for the most part, the single largest expenditure in a month. Unfortunately for families with low incomes, a disproportionate amount of income goes to paying for shelter, This makes securing adequate and safe accomadations often unaffordable.
According to the Bay County Chamber of Commerce, the average price for a home in Bay County is $ 94,000. In 1994, the average people living a households in Bay County was 2.54 (U.S. Census Bureau) members. If this family cannot afford to purchase a home, they will need to rent one, which will cost them on an average of $ 565 a month or $ 6780 a year. This does not take into account the extra costs of housing such as, utilities, gas, telephone or cable. How can America become so misleading? As for poverty it is a very harsh reality many Americans don’t want to deal with. Poverty leads to many different things where we are set to a lower bar. One that we cant help because its where we are set up to.
A ghetto is a usually poor section of city inhabited by usually the same race or religion; a slum area. How are ghettos started? How can they be prevented? We don’t want segregation here in America so why are we causing it? Inhabited usually the same race or religion. That’s not segregated or racist at all. We want to come together as one and be one , so what is holding us back?
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