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URBAN PROBLEMS
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Urban problems in the United States
Most of the cities in the United States have issues that are brought by peoples negligence. The issues experienced in those cities include; racism, crime, inadequate public school systems, crime, poverty, alcoholism and drug abuse. Inaddition, there are also social problems and fiscal crises problems in ancient cities.
A financial crisis occurs in many large cities. It takes years for a city’s economy to recover than national recoveries. Most of the people in many cities are living under poverty, they are unemployed, and they have housing problems. In cities like Chicago, people keep n migrating in search of employment or better opportunities. (Pew Charitable Trusts, 2015)
Secondly, housing problems are experienced in many cities. People who have low income cannot lack affordable housing in the United States. Therefore cities have a great need for affordable housing. There is a shortage of affordable housing in the towns in the United States. Though there are many apartments and accommodation, their prices and rents are not accessible to low-income earners. Since 1980’s the number of affordable houses in the United States, have decreased. The support of the Federal also fell by an average percentage between 1989 to 2003 lots of low -income apartments and houses were demolished. (National Low Income Housing Coalition,2015). There is the racial discrimination issue in the housing problem though it is against the law. There is segregation in the cities by race across the country whereby there are many neighbourhoods with African Americans. (Douglas S. Massey &Nancy A. Denton, 1993)
Thirdly there is overcrowding problem. There are two different ways of crowding in the cities. There is a household crowd in which houses and apartments are small due to lack of space. People with low incomes are forced to live in close quarters. They are smaller than rural dwellings. The second type is residential crowding in which there is a vast population of people who live in the cities in a small area. Researchers say that this crowding leads to crime, stress and depression.
References
Kendall, D.E.(2019)
McNichol, D. A. (2009, May 1). Revenue loss putting cities in the fiscal vice. New York Times
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