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In the Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan, there is a public housing development. The neighborhood is very nice and otherwise leans towards the affluent side. A
by dbmikus 10y ago
In the Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan, there is a public housing development. The neighborhood is very nice and otherwise leans towards the affluent side. A lot of the public housing residents have to go over to Jersey to buy groceries and household products because most things in Chelsea are too expensive. The only grocery stores in the area are Whole Foods and the like.
Overall, I think the neighborhood works out for those in public housing, but there are downsides.
Anecdotally, I'm not sure if just dropping public housing in "good" districts is always a viable solution. Definitely, being in a good school district is beneficial and I think integration is helpful, but it's not as simple as just mashing two economic classes together.
- ghaff 10y agoWhole Foods is the only large grocery store I know of near what I assume is the biggest public housing development in Cambridge MA. (With a Trader Joe's just a little further.) It's not an affluent neighborhood but a lot of people drive through the immediate area because it's on one of the main feeder roads into the city. I did look up the test scores for Cambridge Rindge and Latin which is the only public high school in Cambridge (which for those not familiar with the area has a tech/biotech boom in addition to being home to Harvard and MIT). It's in the bottom half for the state in spite of having some of the highest per-student spending in the state (and one of the better student/teacher ratios).