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OK, so build low-income housing in rich districts (unless you are saying the presence of poor kids destroys the good school) and stop using zoning to limit what

OK, so build low-income housing in rich districts (unless you are saying the presence of poor kids destroys the good school) and stop using zoning to limit what kinds of residences can be built (lot-size, multi-family, building height, etc.). In the suburb of Saint Louis where my wife grew up, each lot had to be at least 1 acre, and had to be single-family. Given how expensive it was to live there, realistically the only properties that were profitable to build were McMansions. Amazing school district though!

AstralStorm 8y ago
Rich can and will move. You would need exorbitant force to keep them. What is your proposed means of oppression to not make them move? Next, even if housing is mixed, rich can pool resources and start smaller scale private schooling. Results in Japanese model. You will have to prevent it by force as well. It doesn't take much to outdo people who are preoccupied trying to make ends meet and being distracted with better education amd more attention.
Latteland 8y ago
I think we'd be better off if poorer people were not concentrated, of course today it's economic concentration or discrimination that makes it harder to equalize things. Not only am I lucky to live in a good school district for my kids, but people in my more wealthy area are much more willing to support school levys and donate money and time. There is some lower income housing, but in a boom town like Seattle you get a second negative impact on poorer people, which is displacement through rising prices of homes and apartments. Poorer people have to leave because they can't afford rising rents. Their old neighborhood starts to get more of the better educated people who could help the local schools with their background and money. It's not impossible to go up, but it feels like it is harder. In my family, my grandparents were both some of the first people to go to college during the great depression, with basically no money. They came from tiny high schools but managed to make it.
- seibelj 8y ago
  The reason housing is so expensive is that there isn’t enough housing, supply and demand. If you allow developers to build housing commiserate with demand, the prices don’t get to SF levels.

AstralStorm 8y ago

Rich can and will move. You would need exorbitant force to keep them. What is your proposed means of oppression to not make them move? Next, even if housing is mixed, rich can pool resources and start smaller scale private schooling. Results in Japanese model. You will have to prevent it by force as well. It doesn't take much to outdo people who are preoccupied trying to make ends meet and being distracted with better education amd more attention.

Latteland 8y ago

I think we'd be better off if poorer people were not concentrated, of course today it's economic concentration or discrimination that makes it harder to equalize things. Not only am I lucky to live in a good school district for my kids, but people in my more wealthy area are much more willing to support school levys and donate money and time. There is some lower income housing, but in a boom town like Seattle you get a second negative impact on poorer people, which is displacement through rising prices of homes and apartments. Poorer people have to leave because they can't afford rising rents. Their old neighborhood starts to get more of the better educated people who could help the local schools with their background and money. It's not impossible to go up, but it feels like it is harder. In my family, my grandparents were both some of the first people to go to college during the great depression, with basically no money. They came from tiny high schools but managed to make it.

seibelj 8y ago
The reason housing is so expensive is that there isn’t enough housing, supply and demand. If you allow developers to build housing commiserate with demand, the prices don’t get to SF levels.