Liberal democrats trying to correct one social experiment F-up with another F-up. Share the crime with everybody.
No sense pretending that the people of Maryland don’t deserve this. They vote for more of it every time they get a chance.
I went the other way. I moved into an area where houses were left to rot, boarded up, and under foreclosure and back taxes in the city. After four years, our inner city neighborhood is discussing closing our streets from those main intersecting and gating the community. Mostly mixed black and white now, and houses sold ten years ago for $180K were had for $60K. Now that it’s all fixed up, they are back in the $160K range.
I agree with you on that. We are still living with the results of the central planning mistakes of the 1960's and '70's, characterized by the big urban housing projects that concentrated the problem cases and contributed heavily to the development of a self-reinforcing culture of poverty. Bit by bit, we are tearing these down, proving that even social services bureaucrats can sometimes learn. The problem is, if you tear down a big project, the people have to go somewhere. The suburbs can't just say, "eek," pull up their skirts, and systematically zone poor people out.
Let a free market operate. Exclusionary zoning is not a free market. And if one interferes with the operation of a free market in housing, there arises an obligation to accept some responsibility for sharing the burden. I live, for example, in an historic district in a rapidly gentrifying part of town. At this point, we still live in close proximity to remaining pockets of low income housing, so we cannot (yet) be accused of pulling up the drawbridges. But as the area continues to gentrify, I accept that we will acquire an obligation to provide some percentage of assisted housing. Everyone needs to take a share.
move people....move now....your home values will sink like a rock....
your children will be harassed and attacked...
just move...