But he thinks governments should toughen up the definition of poverty. It's quite a long list. Food, obviously, and reasonably healthy food at that - a meagre bowl of thin gruel three times a day may have been good enough for Oliver Twist, but it won't keep children or adults well enough to foot it in today's demanding world. Clothing, of course - nothing fancy, but it has to be decent. Dickensian rags would get you arrested today.
Shelter is vital too, along with furniture.
But if it's perpetually damp or overcrowded, so that you can't keep the house or yourself clean and dry, it will drag down everyone who lives in it. Get the food and shelter right, and many health problems won't arise or won't get serious. Get them wrong, and you'll breed lifelong problems, from damaged intelligence to rheumatic fever. Well, you can't live in a city without using power and water supplies, so you have to be able to pay for those. They cost more after they are sold to private companies.