An index for tropes dealing with lower class squalor, homelessness, and an overall lack of wealth or fiscal standing.
Contrast with Rich People, Luxury Tropes.
Tropes:
- Bankruptcy Barrel
- Barefoot Poverty
- Basement-Dweller
- Bath of Poverty
- Beggar with a Signboard
- Bindle Stick
- Broke Episode
- Cardboard Box Home
- Crazy Homeless People
- Cutting Corners
- Disposable Vagrant
- Dog Food Diet
- Dying Town
- Empty Fridge, Empty Life
- Financial Test of Friendship
- Fingerless Gloves
- Forgot to Pay the Bill
- "Friends" Rent Control
- Hobos
- Homeless Pigeon Person
- Homeless Hero
- Impoverished Patrician
- Informed Poverty
- Inner City School
- Just Like Robin Hood
- Kill the Poor
- King of the Homeless
- Land Poor
- Lives in a Van
- Lower-Class Lout
- Ms. Red Ink
- Mundane Luxury
- No Budget
- No Poverty
- Pauper Patches
- Penny Among Diamonds
- Perpetual Poverty
- Pottery Barn Poor
- Poverty Food
- Poverty for Comedy
- Princess in Rags
- Rags to Riches
- Rags to Royalty
- Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor
- Riches to Rags
- Single Mom Stripper
- Slobs vs. Snobs
- Slumming It
- Starving Artist
- Starving Student
- Streetwalker
- Struggling Single Mother
- Sucky School
- The Tramp
- Urban Hellscape
- Wallet Moths
- Wisdom from the Gutter
- Work Off the Debt
- Working-Class Hero
- Working Class People Are Morons
- Working-Class Werewolves
- Wrong Side of the Tracks
