I think the worry is that once established, the trailer farms will end up being permanent government housing, and end up being filled with the low lifes , not that they will turn anyone into them. Anyone who can claw his way out will, and only the bottom will remain. Just like the high rise slums like Cabrini Green or Robert Taylor homes in my old home town of Chicago.
Ah, those Robert Taylor homes. Are they the ones that got demolished?
I get the point. It sure seems like a better plan would be to let people seep here and there and find their own places scattered about, and provide actual homes only for some that absolutely can't get it together.
The problem really is the problem people who can't/won't/don't know how to take responsibility for themselves. Whether they're in shelters, mobile homes, regular apartments, scattered about, clumped together, doesn't matter.
It's a deep problem with no simple answer (that I know of). If there is a simple answer I'd like to read about it. It is clear that a couple of generations of welfare has ruined a lot of lives, and made the illegitimacy rate skyrocket. People who can escape from that life just need to cut and run. Actually I've had ideas in the past such as Boys' Town type of things, kind of group homes, for the illegitimate kids with incompetent mothers. The mothers can stay too and learn skills, see their kids, and practice being responsible humans without ruining their kids and thereby churning out another generation just like them.
It's gone so wrong for so long, and throwing money and goods at people who don't know how to act isn't going to help one bit.
A trailer isn't going to last anywhere near as long as those high rise projects. Even with excellent care, they won't make twenty years. And these trailers are going to be used hard. In four or five years at the most, people will HAVE to be looking for a different living arrangement.
The piney woods of Texas sure as Hell isn't any thing like New Orleans. Somebody is in for a shock.
That's my worry. What is the plan for encouraging and helping these folks to become self-supporting?
"I think the worry is that once established, the trailer farms will end up being permanent government housing"
No, it won't take them long to tear the trailers up to the point where they will be uninhabitable.