Individuals living in low-income areas have higher satisfaction with the area and housing, greater social cohesion and empowerment through participation in projects. 

In many cases communities suffering from poverty contribute towards upholding conversional norms, this actively demonstrates that they participate in recycling projects. People often find difficulties in reaching their full potential due to hardships they are are facing in terms of education, georgraphical  area and etc. People in poverty are recognised to be living below the the income line but they continuously strive to make a living. Poor communities create a repetitive economic cycle to sustain themselves through transport services, road-vending businesses and farming. Since they are somehow deprived from social resources they are somehow deprived from social resources they are forced to self-sustain. Example, a mother of more than two children selling goods and services at the road side to sustain her children educationally, with food and other fundamental necessities. Poor people possess skills that wealthier people do not have such as mechanical skills. The poor maintain a small carbon footprint because they use less energy and poor communities often benefit free housing which are catered for by the government and they have tax benefits and access to municipality services.