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This photo reveals the forefront or the gateway to the city of Port- of- Spain. Sea Lots is poverty ridden residential area that is located in the city. The result of gentrification is highly evident in these “run down” and dilapidated infrastructures that houses the residents. 

The fact that the spread of housing is jutting towards the sea rather than along the main access road into the city, is really amazing yet heartbreaking, in that it shows the risk these dwellers would endure in order to make a home for them and their families. This settlement is in close proximity to the edge of the Gulf of Paria. According to the youths of the area, the sea is used for various purposes such as fishing as a form of recreation and food source, transport routes and waste disposal. Improper drainage is visible through the structure of the pipes that dispose toilet waste into the sea.

“The theorization of the development and location of increasingly downgraded working class areas in close proximity to gentrifying neighborhoods and which belie a picture of progressive homogenization of inner city and suburbs” this is visible in the suburbs of Port of Spain in the study area of Sea Lots.” (Michal Lyons, 1996)