Metropolitan Poverty at a Glance in Osun State of Nigeria

Abstract

City viscous poverty is more rampant than local area poverty and this urban poverty has lead to problems of urbanization whereby an average citizen cannot even meet up their daily expenditure. This study used foster and thornback approaches to compare and analyzed the determinants that are responsible to metropolitan poverty and necessary measure to reduced the high rate of city poverty is suggested based on the researcher findings. Hundred household were sampled but only seventy households’ responds to the interview schedule and the rest of thirty samples were discards due to non responds by the households Multi- stage techniques were used and the result showed that majority of the households lived in I better pass my neighbors houses and they are not the owners of the houses