Concentrated Area of poverty

People more commonly use the term ghettos. The term is incorrect when describing Blacks in America. Blacks live in concentrated areas of poverty. Not ghettos that is a term that was used to describe where Jewish people lived.

Well I'm headed to a well known concentrated area of poverty pray for me.

by Lady that is real July 27, 2022

Poverty school

An academic institution whose athletics and educational entities are extremely below average. This institution does not have the monetary capability or resources available to surpass even the average threshold at a normal institution. These schools entertain low athletic and academic production, low fan count, low morale, and will usually sell the naming rights of their facilities to a 3rd party such as a grocery store.

I don’t know why anyone would want to go to the University of Kentucky, it’s such a poverty school.

by Megaboot June 8, 2022

Poverty rat

A broke ass bitch

Tommy: if you have that kid he’ll use all your money!

Jason: What?

Tommy: Kids are expensive, you’ll be a dirty fucking poverty rat

by Your real name321 June 25, 2022

poverty pretty

When she pretty but stank and poor.

Ex:

Me: Yo, you seen that girl Jazmine?

Friend: Yeah, she cute, but she's look poor and she stank. She poverty pretty!

by wesley walker February 26, 2022

Theory of Constructed Poverty

The argument that poverty is not just a lack of money but a social status and material condition that is actively produced and maintained by systems. Laws, economic policies, discriminatory practices, and spatial planning (like redlining) construct barriers that prevent groups of people from accessing wealth, trapping them in a condition defined as "poor." Poverty is less an individual failing and more the outcome of a societal blueprint that allocates deprivation.

*Example: "Her neighborhood had no grocery store, bad schools, and predatory lenders—all while being a 10-minute drive from a booming business district. The Theory of Constructed Poverty explains this: it's not an accident. Decades of zoning, disinvestment, and policing policies literally constructed that landscape of need. The poverty was built into the infrastructure, brick by bureaucratic brick."*

by Abzu Land January 31, 2026