Montebello, California
Montebello is simply not an ideal place to live. With the average commute being 33 minutes, 14% of the population lives in poverty, and 19% don’t have health insurance. However, the worst part is finding affordable housing. A home-ownership counselor spoke to The New York Times in 2019 and said that prospects for first-time buyers weren’t good and that opportunities to live there weren’t growing.
Pasadena, Texas
Once the home to the headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan, Pasadena still has racial problems to this day. The city is mostly working-class and is based next to petrochemical plants. Nowadays, Pasadena is very divided. The north consists mostly of Latino residents while the south is mostly white.