Because its not NIMBYism? I live in Chicago and we do this to welfare types and its ultimately unfair to them. There's a few public housing projects in ultra-tr

Because its not NIMBYism? I live in Chicago and we do this to welfare types and its ultimately unfair to them. There's a few public housing projects in ultra-trendy Wicker Park where these residents are shoved in the middle of a largely residential neighborhood. So it a long walk to get to the bus or the train. Worse, there are no jobs other than McJobs you can get anywhere in these areas. No up and coming business towers hungry for talent. Just retail garbage. The 'real' jobs are mostly downtown and considering we have the CTA you could live almost anywhere in the city to get downtown. So we take these people and put them in trendy areas for what exactly? Meanwhile those lots could be be making tens, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in property tax. Worse, a lot of these people show up with their messed up kids, who also have nothing to do, and who significantly raise the crime in the area. I used to live next to a settlement like this. It was just 24/7 partying and fighting while the rest of us had to get up to go to work. My car was broken into as well as our neighbor's, violent crime was significant compared to just a few blocks over, etc. Its a disservice to everyone involved. The city grabbed this land during a different time when there were different political and economic realities. Shoving all these very poor people into the middle of ritzy areas doesn't work. Liberals are quick to criticize trickle-down economics, but what they're doing here is the exact same thing. There's nothing to trickle-down to these people.