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Funny you use low-income housing as an example. Housing projects have made many things worse, because they concentrate poverty and therefore crime. It's one of
by pitaj 8y ago
Funny you use low-income housing as an example. Housing projects have made many things worse, because they concentrate poverty and therefore crime. It's one of the four columns of the poverty-cycle:
- drug war
- justice system
- housing projects
- welfare gap
- soared 8y agoMy view is probably biased since I live in Denver. Every new building with more than a certain number of units (I couldn't find the year it started) is required to have some percentage of units dedicated to low-income / low-rent tenants. So we don't have the problem of concentrated poverty or crime. It is based off of earning a percentage of median income by county (or maybe zip code).
- pitaj 8y agoSure, that's one way to do it, but it also reduces housing supply. This increases housing costs which is really bad for the poor. The four horsemen of housing cost: - rent control - NIMBYism - zoning - "affordable housing first!!!"