Good reduction strategies and policies should rely on better understanding of the status and their coping response of households. The general aim of the study was asses on the realities of urban poor food security and their coping. To achieve this objective; cross-sectional and mixed research design was applied. On condition that in urban areas poverty is more elaborated in inner-city especially in Addis ketma sub city woreda seven selected as the study woreda which found is near to the bus station and most of urban poor household live therefore a total of 189 households selected by using stratified random sampling according to UPSNP beneficiary and not beneficiary households and questioner, structured interview, focus group participants, key informants , observation and intensive review literature were data sources and HFIAS,CSI and FCS used as a tool.Data was collected through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods.Descriptive statics used for analyzing the data.The major finding for the food security of urban poor household in woreda seven the majority respondents in woreda seven replied family size, marital status ,monthly income, living condition, educational level ,age, gender and housing condition are urban house hold food insecurity driving factors. In general, the food security status of urban poor UPSNP beneficiaries are moderately food insecure whereas UPSNP not beneficiaries households are severely food insecure all this triangulated with focus group discussion, observation and key informant interview due to this fact I recommend for the government and NGOs to intervene in supporting households by compensating the gaps in income and food especially for UPSNP not benficiary, set to adjust cash transfers for UPSNP beneficiaries, create more jobs by fixing minimum wages and the pension rate for the retired people need to be reconsidered as their coping mechanism are clear indications as how interventions work along those lines.