Low income /homeless does not automatically equate to building destroyers.  I have seen homeless campsites that look like high prices tourists spots with rock walk ways lined with rope and tiki torches.  In contrast, I rented out a house to a public school teacher, after carefully picking her as what I thought was the most respectable person out of the bunch that applied for the house.  She and her family destroyed my house within 6 months. I had an awesome garden out front of the yard with fish ponds, bilevel waterfall, white gravel walk way.  She started parking their 4 cars in the yard, mowed down all of the flowers, ripped out the elevated sitting area with waterfall and pond... so they could park more cars in the yard.  She took off with ALL of the furniture in the house when they bailed out in the middle of the night and I had to rip out all of the carpets as they were soaked with red kool aid and who knows what else. 
Ghetto is about attitude, not necessarily about money.