What is the distinction between household poverty and neighborhood poverty?

What will be an ideal response?


Ans: Household poverty is the poverty an individual may experience while living in a low-income or mixed-income neighborhood; whereas neighborhood poverty is the level of households in a given neighborhood who live at or below the poverty line.
KEY: Learning Objective: 7.4: Discuss the problem of neighborhood poverty.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Problem of Neighborhood Poverty
Difficulty Level: Medium

Sociology

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