Subsidized housing in “better” neighborhoods just produces more ghettos at higher cost. I have seen how that works in St Petersburg. And there isn’t much gradually to it. One year it is a nice neighborhood. The next year it has gangs and houses falling apart. That was single family houses.I have seen it in Gainesville where a subsidized apartment project very quickly converted an adjacent nice crime free neighborhood to a crime ridden ghetto neighborhood. It starts when the project folks carry their broken couches and refrigerators over to the houses and deposit them on yards. Then come the nightly breakins and the drug deals in the old established neighborhood because the police are on duty in the project and then lots of etc until everyone has left and been replaced by the same people who inhabit the project.
It is too late now. The refuge camps have already been established. There is hope though, there are all kinds of businesses that are looking for huge concentrations of uneducated, unskilled workers.
um... they do that too. It's called a section 8 voucher.
But it doesn't work any better than the projects. Because they are not allowed to use it on “any” property, only on ones that have been certified to be able to accept section 8. And guess where the only “certified” section 8 housing is? pretty much right across the street from the projects!
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The whole thing is a scam created by KKK democrats to keep minorities poor, segregated, and most importantly clustered together in districts to ensure they re-elect the KKK democrats and/or their house nigro race baiters (like Shela Jackson Lee)
The problem with low income housing is that it concentrates dysfunctional families in a single area. The children in low income housing see only dysfunctional role models: Welfare moms and their unemployed boy friends, drunks and drug users and dealers, pimps, gang members and other riff raff.
As a child in the 1960’s I saw plenty of dysfunctional families, but they were housed in normal neighborhoods. The kids from dysfunctional families in the 1960’s at least had next door neighbors who were role models for normalcy. Low income housing today ensures the kids residing there will never see what normal families look like.
There isn't much difference between government schools. There aren't really better schools, just better school students.
I think “affordable” housing projects should be built where every other mansion in rich Democratic enclaves is torn down.
“And if we want to help low-income earners with housing costs, give them a voucher to defray rental costs that they can use anywhere the want.”
Isn’t that what section 8 is? I have friends in CA that paid well for nice houses in nice neighborhoods, only to have some section 8 move in after the housing bust. Their property value went down. Burglary, gang/drug activities came with these poor people that just want to live in a nicer neighborhood.