The phrase "a poor suburb of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a suburb that is economically disadvantaged or has lower living standards compared to other areas.
Example: "He grew up in a poor suburb of the city, where opportunities were limited and resources scarce."
Alternatives: "an underprivileged neighborhood of" or "a disadvantaged area of".
In 1995, he was elected mayor of Sarcelles, a poor suburb of Paris.
The five were seized in a poor suburb of the city.
Dechasa, 33, left her hometown of Burayu, a poor suburb of Addis Ababa, in search of work overseas.
Zyed Benna, 17, and Bouna Traoré, 15, were electrocuted while hiding from the police on a state electrical site in Clichy-sous-Bois Clichy-sous-Bois Clichy-sous-Bois
Luis D'Elia, a leader of a protest movement in a poor suburb of Buenos Aires, says that former secret policemen and Peronist activists were seen winding up crowds.
Mr. Poveda was returning from filming in La Campanera, a poor suburb of the capital that is a stronghold of the gang, when he was killed.
After five years of Mondays collecting donated food from cold storage warehouses, Slye, the indefatigable pastor of a church in a poorer suburb of Washington DC, has a keen sense of how far he can stretch bulk deliveries of pre-washed, bagged salad and other items – and a deeply felt indignation that such high-quality food could go to waste.
Expectant giggles run among his listeners, a small crowd of self-employed garbage collectors in a poor suburb north of Mexico city.
"We want things to change," he said after voting in Chitungwiza, a poor suburb south of here.
A server in the hotel restaurant who spoke decent English, he was living with his girlfriend, Celenia Banegas, in the Colonia 21 de Abril, a poor suburb east of town.
That was enough to persuade him and his wife to gather up their seven children and flee.Their new home is a one-room hut of corrugated iron and board on a steep hillside overlooking a dried-up lake bed in Soacha, a sprawling poor suburb of Bogotá, the capital.
