I lived for ten years across the street from a Section 8 house. It was marginally less attractive than the rest of the neighborhood.
That said, I'd rather see these people dispersed across the country than consolidated into a new 'hive of scum and villany,' reformed with government largesse to have 10x the average crime rate and 3x the unemployment.
What about changing the welfare class as we know it? Can you at least imagine the hope and possibility of it?