Poverty May Look Like This

This picture was taken in one on my trips to Guayaquil, Ecuador. In this particular sector of the city, the local government has invested a lot of resouces recovering a zone that once was a misery belt.
Criticism is at hand: ¿Why here and not everywhere?
That's a question that I will not try to answer here because it should be addressed in a more serious and rigorous text. What I will say, because as a South American I have experienced it myself, is that this picture portrays only one little wrinkle of the face of our poverty. This scene is more than common in most South American countries and this is not exactly the poorest part of town right now.
The people who live in those houses are poor, but they don't live under the poverty line; what you see here is what they get:
-No (real) roads.
-Poor Garbage disposal services.
-Hostile, unfriendly living environments.

My intention here is not to propose a solution or make a public claim about this situation. This should be already well known.
I'll limit myself here to the task of describing my picture, because my written english is not as good as I wish right now to write about economics. I have addressed the topic in some of my articles in spanish (available here: http://jpimentelc.blogspot.com )

P.S: I feel flattered that you have decided to use my picture, I normally use them for my own texts, but I don't have any problem in this case.