“Won’t we just get more “white flight” as these plans are implemented? All this will accomplish is pushing nicer suburban areas farther and farther out from the central city.”
What’s happening in Boston and parts of NYC is that they are becoming gentrified and thus very expensive. Some of the “white flgiht” is into the cities.
Horrendous organizations like Project Hope are relocating the dead beats to the suburbs.
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San Francisco is fully gentrified. Even middle class whites can’t afford to live there any longer. The “open minded, compassionate, liberal” people there raise holy heck whenever high density, affordable housing is proposed.
Downtown D.C. (any neighborhood within a mile or two of the mall) has become gentrified, but there are still neighborhoods there where there is subsidized housing. Not as many as there used to be.