Why does USDA Rural Development do this? USDA Rural Developmentâs Section 502 Direct Loan Program provides a path to homeownership for low- and very-low-income families living in rural areas, and families who truly have no other way to make affordable homeownership a reality.
Shanty town is a part of large cities where poor people live in home-built shacks, often with no electricity or water. - A part of many 3 world cities in Africa and south America.
The word shanty is not used much in Ireland. It seems to be a word used mainly by americans. Shanty Irish was used to describe the poorest of the poor Irish immigrants, the kind who ended up in shanty town (the origin of the word shanty is not known, but it might come from the Irish sean tÃ­, meaning old house). Today shanty in the States is a derogatory term for people who in Ireland might be known as culchies but the people so described need not necessarily be of Irish descent.