english paper

Lisa McKay

9/24/17

The Life in The Inner Poor City

Housing is a big problem not just in Milwaukee, Kansas City, Cleveland, Chicago, and other

cities, but all over the United States. Housing Authority list over 3,500 families who applied for

rental assistance.

In the inner cities, their they have drugs on the streets for young kids to get to them very

easy. Arleen and her boys had to move because they were going to be evicted because of the

property brings destroyed. It was not a good neighborhood.

Children will start selling drugs to help the family. The streets are running with drugs, cars

with the volume up loud all on the streets, people here all night. The people live in poor under

privileged neighborhoods. The people who live in the poor area live in run down houses an

apartments.

Tenants would try to work off their rent by doing odd jobs for the landlord, like Lamar. By

fixing things, the tenants would need done around their apt. To make things livable and help

on his rent. If the tenants would not pay their rent the landlord would have problems paying

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the mortgage and bills back up. Sherrena building was not up to code, the building on

Thirteenth Street. The building was not livable for humans to live in. Most middle class peoples

turn their head as they pass by ghetto neighborhoods on the freeway. Landlords would leave

their upscale life styles at home while visiting their poor neighborhood properties in their old

utility vehicles. But you had to still pay your rent or get evicted. Most families are on welfare

like Arleen’s it is just not enough money to live on. Worried about paying rent Arleen’s family

and many other families would bring on depression. The rent would be .88 percent of Arleen’s

628$ welfare check. So, it brings depression and stress to her and her family. Also, you have

people who believe this is a way of life. People whose family fell on hard times for any number

of reason’s such as illness resulting in loss of income, heads of households not having enough

education to compete in the job market, and with inflation.

Investors who really can’t afford the real estate investment they have made. By that we mean they cannot afford all aspects of the cost of time purchasing (mortgage with high interest) and maintaining the property at least to minimal code standards. Frustrated

landlords trying to maintain and protect their “investment”, constantly arguing with destructive

and delinquent tenants, that are unaware of responsibility, believing the system or society

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owes them and should take care of them, and they take their frustrations out on each other

damaging the property and the community in the process. Many a teenage girl for generations

believe that getting pregnant is the way out of a troubled impoverished home, only to find

themselves three babies and no man, no education, not even high school, in the same situation

they ran from three or four years earlier.

Almost all the black men are locked up. Doreen needed to get away believe her children

daddy in going to be serve a long sentence upstate. So, Doreen and Fanny went to help in

Lafayette,

Louisiana to volunteer. Because of being a long tern tenants of Sherrna. She told them to pay

them back when they could, but something happen she’d come up short.

Matthew Desmond follow eight families so he can find and understand the life in the ghetto.

Apparently to have information he lives the life of the landlords and tenants to reveal the

economic difficulties both sides of the dollar went thru to write this book so the reader can feel

the pain and frustration of those trying to have and those who have nothing but maybe a roof

over their head and had to struggle to make that happen. As I read the critics accolades, I feel

some of them missed the boat simply with upscale non-chalant responses, such as they would

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not be got to the seemingly extreme of Mr. Desmond just to write an accurate story.

In conclusion, whilst society have many programs to help poor people out of these situations

or underprivileged lifestyles, they seek mostly immediate relief assistance, not willing to put in

time to seek long term change, mostly thru education or training not understanding a fish for a

day or fishing for a lifetime.

Revisit the assignment—your essay doesn’t really respond to the prompt (does Desmond effectively argue for the housing crisis as one of America’s most urgent problems?). Organize your paragraphs around distinct thoughts and follow required paper format.

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