Posted on 01/08/2015 12:12:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
More people with low incomes now live outside of cities, and some areas are ill-equipped to deal with the influx of the poor.
NORCROSS, Ga.—Every weekday around 3:15 p.m., a big, yellow school bus stops on Pelican Drive outside Norcross Extended Stay, near the intersection with Best Friend Drive.
Dozens of children file out, carrying their heavy backpacks away from the Wendy’s and the AutoZone, towards the cluster of aging three-story yellow buildings where they live. Some are met by waiting parents, others trek by themselves to the shabby motel rooms, marching past broken-down cars, their tires flat, scattered around the parking lot, and discarded mattresses piled next to some of the residences.
That families are living in extended-stay motels like this one may seem surprising in a town like Norcross, founded in 1870 and named one of the best places to live in Georgia by Movoto, a real estate blog, last year. Gwinnett County, where Norcross is located, is, in parts, a collection of well-off towns like Duluth, home to NeNe Leaks, of Real Housewives of Atlanta fame. Its unemployment rate is just 5.7 percent and one of its schools, the Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology, was recently named one of the best in the nation by U.S. News and World Report.
But the suburbs of Atlanta no longer hold just the promise of good schools, clean streets, and whitewashed homes with manicured lawns proudly displaying American flags. They are increasingly home to the very poor, who find themselves stranded in suburbs without the kind of transit or assistance that they might once have found in cities’ urban cores....
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Who is it that imposes poverty housing on the suburbs? It doesn’t just happen. Fedzilla mandates it.
This is so wrong, mainly since the kids will be complete misfits and the natives will resent the influx and strain.
Welcome to Obamaville.....
It’s somewhat surprising that this is written up in a mainstream media publication.
I thought the Era of Baraq produced pure delight for the proletariat?
BINGO! Another symptom of social engineering. And as with 95% of the government screw ups the only solution for correcting mistakes is more money, more bureaucracy and more mistakes.
It must REALLY annoy the LibTards that their base is fleeing the inner city and heading for the ‘burbs. They prefer the poor be concentrated in the urban areas where they can be kept under thumb, sedated with Freebies and/or rallied to riot at a moment’s notice!
Exactly.
Well, that and those who move away from the city on their own to get away from the criminally inclined . . .
We can thank Section 8 and the new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing for shuffling the poor in to the ‘burbs. Just because you move someone poor in to a nicer neighborhood and gibs them free stuff doesn’t mean they will suddenly become self sufficient.
They complain that as more poor flow into the suburbs, they are faced with increasing crime in these once placid suburbs, yet fail to make the obvious connection.
You can’t blame Obama for this——it’s been going on for many years.
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I’ve noticed over the past 2 years or so that the “poor” have moved into my upper-middle class area of GA. Their numbers are growing too.
Is this some kind of gov’t program where they spread out their section 8 people to the burbs’ hoping we don’t notice?
I believe it’s more likely formerly better off people who have slid down the economic scale and don’t want to live where “poor” people live - a rational decision.
They are the folks who in 2008 had two leased luxury SUVs and a McMansion with a 5 year ARM and 30% negative equity.
Massachusetts’ Chapter 40B Bylaw forces suburban communities to accept huge, unsustainable developments for the poor while negating all local zoning. It’s a total racket by Boston developers/the Legislature to make huge profits while ruining entire towns that cannot afford the services for the mobs of poor.
Plus it’s not fair to those who worked their butts off to afford to live in those ‘burbs.
Carlyle is buying trailer parks.
That tells you how the DC smart money views the future of America.
Woah boy. The comments section over at the Atlantic is something else.
Lots of brain dead, what appear to be schizophrenics over there.
One of the worst comment sections I’ve ever read on any political site. Scary to thing people like that live among us.
the ruling commie clique tosses some of (our working people’s) $$ to the impoverished rabble in the big cities
to buy their ‘safe’ votes. And the ruling commie clique makes damned sure to KEEP their impoverished rabble ‘safely’ on welfare... by erecting all kinds of barriers and dis-incentives to many of them ever finding or holding down jobs. (Can’t have THAT!)
but the ruling commie clique gets nervous (and starts writing articles) when some of their impoverished rabble discover the way (usually on taxpayer-subsidized mass transit systems) to the suburbs where, guess what, the ruling commie clique lives
nervous. that’s all its about. the ruling commie clique’s ‘dependable slaves...oops, reliable voters.....are known, even by their rulers....to be ‘dangerous’
.... gotta find new ways to keep them sedated, tame, under control....hey, how about giving them even more ‘free’ taxpayer $$$$ ....right there at the end of the mass-transit line...in the suburbs?
Problem solved.
The formula for destroying property values and the short lived icon of the 70s, 80s, and 90s, “the indoor mall.”
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