People living in poverty tend to be clustered in certain neighborhoods
rather than being evenly distributed across geographic areas. Measuring
this concentration of poverty is important because researchers have
found that living in areas with many other poor people places burdens on
low-income families beyond what the families' own individual
circumstances would dictate. Many argue that this concentration of
poverty results in higher crime rates, underperforming public schools,
poor housing and health conditions, as well as limited access to private
services
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