What caused Bono to stay in his house on Logan Street for "six long years" despite the outhouse and the wind that blew through the house in the winter?

Bono lived on Logan Street because he believed that he didn't have any other choices. He believed that there wasn't a way out of poverty unless you were white.

BONO I hear you tell it. Me and Lucille was staying down there on Logan Street. Had two rooms with the outhouse in the back. I ain't mind the outhouse none. But when that goddamn wind blow through there in the winter . . . that's what I'm talking about! To this day I wonder why in the hell I ever stayed down there for six long years. But see, I didn't know I could do no better. I thought only white folks had inside toilets and things.