Where should low-income housing projects be located?

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It has never made sense to me why low-income housing projects are located in the downtown areas of cities.

Something else Ive noticed the past 10-15 years is that instead of lumping all the shit in one area, govts now prefer to sprinke it around various areas.

It probably became embarassing when various foreign business, political, tourists, educational folks came to USA and saw these massive slums in the cities.

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Baghdad

Anywhere, "just not in my neighborhood"

How about 90210 or Central Park South?

Trump Towers

Why do new housing developments turn into slums anyways? :think2:
 

Virtus Junxit Mors Non Separabit
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in Charlotte the older constructed low income housing near downtown is being de urbanized into quaint homes with 'character'

yet they are constructing new modern low income housing on the other side of downown, if you drive thru they would seem like high dollar condos
 

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It has never made sense to me why low-income housing projects are located in the downtown areas of cities.

Many of them were built to attract more work force during difficult times such as WWII period and downtowns were the areas where that work force was needed.

Something else Ive noticed the past 10-15 years is that instead of lumping all the shit in one area, govts now prefer to sprinke it around various areas.

This is actually very smart approach. It is the old and massive projects that are known to be a really big problems. If you keep them small they can be just an inconvenience probably because there is not enough internal resources and organization for it to become a bigger problem even on a smaller scale. The surprising fact that the crime in a good neighborhood does not rise with the appearance of a new low-income project. However, it will certainly will arise if you create a large area of those and let them brew. Think about what happened in France this summer.
 

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Many of the the housing estates in France are located in suburbs, but they are highly concentrated and populated.
 

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I don't think we should build ANY low-income housing except for people who absolutely can't work. In the US, any able person can get a job.

I've known people who were from projects who moved out and got a job elsewhere and made it just fine.
 

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Far away from the rich liberals. They love the poor, but they hate living near them.
 

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I don't think we should build ANY low-income housing except for people who absolutely can't work. In the US, any able person can get a job.

I've known people who were from projects who moved out and got a job elsewhere and made it just fine.
I hate to spring this on you but many in public housing do hold down jobs. They are single mothers or fathers, the under educated and disabled that live on the pittance of minimum wage.
Try paying 5 or 6 hundred dollars a month rent when you barely net $200 dollars a week.

Far away from the rich liberals. They love the poor, but they hate living near them.
How many Habitat For Humanity homes in your neighborhood?
:think2: ........
That's what I thought.
 

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I hate to spring this on you but many in public housing do hold down jobs. They are single mothers or fathers, the under educated and disabled that live on the pittance of minimum wage.
Try paying 5 or 6 hundred dollars a month rent when you barely net $200 dollars a week.

How many Habitat For Humanity homes in your neighborhood?
:think2: ........
That's what I thought.


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Do any white people live in these "Low Income Housing Projects"? In California it's all MEXICAN or BLACK mostly Mexican.
 

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Do any white people live in these "Low Income Housing Projects"? In California it's all MEXICAN or BLACK mostly Mexican.

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And many more on the way so Commies like JR and the Hildabeast can guilt the middle class into joining them in the poorhouse.

Thank you Teddy Kennedy, John McVain and Jorge Bush!
 
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And many more on the way so Commies like JR and Hildabeast can guilt us into the poorhouse.

Thank you Teddy Kennedy, John McVain and Jorge Bush!

I do believe there should be some kind of low income housing BUT I don't believe it should be subjected only to these woman with 5 kids (with all 5 indefinitely growing up to be gang members) from 5 different men or people who don't work..

I guess there is no fair way to go about this..
 

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I do believe there should be some kind of low income housing BUT I don't believe it should be subjected only to these woman with 5 kids (with all 5 indefinitely growing up to be gang members) from 5 different men or people who don't work..

I guess there is no fair way to go about this..

Nope, there isn't. Not that it hasn't stopped bleeding hearts from trying...

Just cut the lifeline. Some will sink, most will learn to swim. What doesn't kill them will make them stronger.
 

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All of the slums need to be relocated to the people who care about them the most....Hollywood.... Besides Hollywood has enough money to solve many of our problems if enough of them cared to walk the talk...
 

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It's just going to wind-up being where no one with more money wants to live.

Low income means you get the old undesirable building, which is often urban, which can be OK since at least there are buses to get to a Walmart job. Put the low-income housing in the suburbs ( gov't funded) then the people that live there can't get anywhere. Next, they wind up in jail at an even higher rate.
 

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I hate to spring this on you but many in public housing do hold down jobs. They are single mothers or fathers, the under educated and disabled that live on the pittance of minimum wage.
Try paying 5 or 6 hundred dollars a month rent when you barely net $200 dollars a week.

How many Habitat For Humanity homes in your neighborhood?
:think2: ........
That's what I thought.

JR, I drove by one being built just the other day. One of those sites that had like 60 workers there. Not my neighborhood, but in my town.

and

I've kids on my baseball team that volunteer building homes one week every summer.

So there :thumbsup:
 

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