poverty-strickenadjective
uk/ˈpɒv.ə.tiˌstrɪk.ən/us/ˈpɑː.vɚ.t̬iˌstrɪk.ən/A poverty-stricken person or place is suffering from the effects of being extremely poor:
Some beggars are neither poverty-stricken nor homeless.
There are few jobs for the peasants who have flooded into the cities from the poverty-stricken countryside in search of work.