“Unless they are very careful about who they let in it’s going to be a disaster.”
That fails no matter what.
It is what I call the “grandma effect”.
Grandma is a sweet black lady—treats everyone great and everybody loves grandma. She would not hurt a fly, goes to church every Sunday, keeps her apartment and hallway neat and clean. You would love grandma as a neighbor.
Then one day grandma gets a phone call. Her daughter (single mom) just got arrested for drug possession (third strike) and will be serving a year in prison.
Grandma agrees to let her daughter’s two kids stay with her while mom is in prison.
One of the kids is a teenage son who belongs to a street gang. Within days after he arrives there are constant burglaries in the complex. Within weeks residents are being attacked by teenage gangs visiting the grandson from the “hood”. In a few months residents are abandoning their apartments and fleeing far away.
The “hood” gangs take over as squatters in the vacant apartments.
In a few years the buildings and site are totally trashed and grandma wonders what went wrong with her “affordable housing”.
Sadly, yes.