Deprivation and poverty in HIC cities

The reality is that even within so-called wealthy countries theres poverty and that many HIC cities have their areas of poor housing, known as slums.

In HIC cities the word deprivation is widely used in connection with poverty. Deprivation is said to occur when a person well-being falls below a level which is generally thought of as an acceptable minimum. In the UK, a multiple deprivation index (MDI) has been developed to assess the level of deprivation across the whole country. It is based on seven different qualities of life indicators:

• Income
• Employment
• Health
• Education
• Access to housing and services
• Crime
• The living environment

The more central parts of the city - here deprivation coincides with areas of either old and substandard housing or high-rise apartment blocks that were built after the end of the second world war to house people displaced by the slum clearance schemes.

Towards the cities edge- here deprivation mainly occurs in the estates of social housing built by the city for rent to poorer households.

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