Poverty and Urbanization

With the development of the society, urbanization has become an international trend in which more and more people seek better opportunities in the cities. Currently, urbanization produces benefits such as economic progress, as well as better employment and business opportunities. However, it also brings social problems to the society which often leads to inequality in the access of resources and amenities. The term, “urbanization” can be defined as the expansion of cities or towns in country areas alongside the immigration of rural dwellers into urban areas. Furthermore, “equality” means a fair and impartial society where everyone is treated based on the same standard. Therefore, this essay will argue that urbanization does not lead to an equitable society. Firstly, housing problem caused by urbanization. Secondly, urbanization process leads to inequality of life quality.
Urbanization leads to the housing problem of inequality. In addition, not everyone can have a place to live. Firstly, urbanization process increases the population density in the cities, which leads to high demand on houses, but the land of housing is limited. According to Buhuag & Urdal (2013, p.2), urbanization stimulates more and more people to leave the rural areas and go to big cities to find jobs, and there is not much outflow of population from big cities. Therefore, the population density in big cities increases significantly during urbanization. Because the land available for building residential properties is limited, large cities may be unable to house these new immigrants. This leads to inequality between people who have places to live and who do not. From this evidence, it is apparent that people have to accept different living conditions. And urbanization leads to scarce land resources. Moreover, the cities have no enough land for building houses. Furthermore, scarce land is very expansive, because buying land has to pay high ground rent. Therefore, a few housing lead to supply and