[sphinx]

Education aside, school choice is also a powerful tool for stabilizing urban neighborhoods that are still solid, and gentrifying the sketchy ones. The other key reform is getting rid of the big housing projects, turning housing support into vouchers (not Sec. 8, which stays with a fixed site property), and shifting the housing-assisted population into much smaller scale, lower density patterns. Dilution is the solution.

Virtually every gangbanger has close relatives -- siblings, uncle or aunt, cousin -- who are doing the right thing, working, and staying out of trouble. There is a feral population that probably can't be salvaged, but if we drained the swamp, we would substantially reduce the numbers we are producing. It's really nothing more than undoing LBJ's disastrous wrong turns.

[Solson]

Agreed. I also think dilution, as it relates to school location and size is also a solution. Smaller, more neighborhood associated schools are key. It’s going back to the one room schoolhouse - effective, especially given technology today.