Urge the locals to house the poor people (7)
I believe the answer is:
beggars
'poor people' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'urge the locals to house' is the wordplay.
'urge' becomes 'egg' (as in egging someone on).
'the locals' becomes 'bars' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to house' is an insertion indicator.
'egg' put into 'bars' is 'BEGGARS'.
'the' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for beggars that I've seen before include "Bums" , "Mendicants" , "'If wishes were horses . . . . . . . would ride'" .)