Are individuals being punished for being poor?

Are individuals being punished for being poor?

Urban community means living in the city, people who live in a city or a big town. When I think of urban communities, I think of Chicago or New York. They both have really tall and big buildings, it’s often crowded, people who commutes and usually takes public transportation.

Unlike rural areas, which are the opposite of urban areas, it has a lower population. Rural areas tend to be really close to their community and might be able to rely on their neighbors. Living in an urban community, the pace is much faster, increased in technology and there’s a high population in those areas and as the authors of The New Urban Sociology stated, the majority of the world’s population lives in urban areas. I use to live in Chicago on Winnemac Street, by Foster and the CTA stop at Argyle. Though I didn’t think the area I lived in was often crowded like downtown of Chicago was. The area I lived in was a walking distance to my school and I would take public transportation to either Uptown or anywhere else. As I got older, my family thought it’d be a good idea to move to the suburbs, we were able to get a house, there’s better opportunities in education, and we were much more closer to my relatives. To me, I feel like urban communities are flipping everything around, especially with having more of a predominantly Caucasians in different areas in cities of Chicago. I also feel like everything in Chicago is increasing in rent, food, gas, etc. and this creates a problem for families who are in poverty, people who are unemployed, difficulty in finding jobs, and those who has a lower income.

Like you’ve mentioned in class, people who has lived in certain areas for a long time are being kicked out and forced to move into suburban areas because they can’t afford to live there anymore. My point is that there are a lot more people nowadays moving out of the city and into the suburbs since they can’t afford it. I currently live in Lincolnwood and went to high school in Skokie. Living there, I noticed different middle schools in suburban areas like Lincolnwood, Skokie, Niles, and Morton Grove has different tuition and fees. Specifically, I think people who are being forced to move out of their homes from Chicago lives in certain areas in Skokie. I’m not saying all do, but there’s an increase in minorities who goes to certain schools and live in certain areas that may be based off of how much it cost. The New Urban Sociology book mentions the various meanings of urban population in different countries in many ways. This past winter, I got a chance to travel to Vietnam. I got to visit the largest city in Vietnam called Ho Chi Minh City. The city is filled with buildings, busy streets, taxis cutting you off,

and the amount of people on motorbikes in the streets is chaotic. The city is also filled with restaurants, businesses, markets, etc. On this trip, I got to experience what life was like in the urban community and rural community. The rural community in Vietnam is much more quieter. Most low-income families lives in rural area, they tend to be farmers and the community is not as busy and less

hectic. Unlike urban areas in Vietnam, there are no hot showers and when it’s 80+ degrees, there are no air conditionings in rural area. Overall, the life we choose to settle in whether if it’s urban or rural society may be based on your income. Going back to my point, families are forced to move out the city. Though families have been living there for many years, they have nowhere else to go but forced to move into the suburbs. It's unfair that they're being punished because they can't afford living there anymore. With a high density of population, urban communities is developing and increasing while rural areas are increasing with low-income families. Though the majority of the world’s population living in urban areas, it’s important to see if there’s any availability in housing or any other services for people to apply in everyday life. 

link that relates to this:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2013/0911/Face-of-US-poverty-These-days-more-poor-live-in-suburbs-than-in-cities