Eric Espinosa
Over The Rhine Ghetto: In the ghetto: Over-the-Rhine
Over-the-Rhine, Summer 2007
The poverty rate in Over-the-Rhine approaches 95 percent, and the area houses many of the city's homeless shelters, soup kitchens and drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers. A drive through the neighborhood provides a picture of destitution and desperation, with trash-filled lots, abandoned houses and storefronts and dozens of unemployed young men congregating on street corners with nothing to do. Most of those who work rely on the dozens of the low-paying day labor and temporary agencies that dot the neighborhood.
The poverty rate in Over-the-Rhine approaches 95 percent, and the area houses many of the city's homeless shelters, soup kitchens and drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers. A drive through the neighborhood provides a picture of destitution and desperation, with trash-filled lots, abandoned houses and storefronts and dozens of unemployed young men congregating on street corners with nothing to do. Most of those who work rely on the dozens of the low-paying day labor and temporary agencies that dot the neighborhood.
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