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> And to anyone who loves talking about how enlightened they are, ask yourself if YOU would choose to live next to government housing for 500+ low income people
by drb91 7y ago
> And to anyone who loves talking about how enlightened they are, ask yourself if YOU would choose to live next to government housing for 500+ low income people. Of course you wouldn't.
...why not?
- apostacy 7y agoCool, pack your bags and move to the nearest big city housing project. Actually, why aren't you there now, you can save so much money. Or for that matter, homeless shelters are even cheaper.
- munk-a 7y agoUnfortunately due to views like yours those housing projects are usually shoved well out of the way and lack access to good public transit (not infrequent buses) and services (a housing project that big could definitely support a grocery store). So I'm suggesting they do plop one down right next to you since you seem to live in such a nice area!
- apostacy 7y agoI actually had the fortune of living in a public housing project for a brief period in my youth. And since you think it would be so beneficial to live in or near one, I am still wondering why you don't consider moving there. Maybe you can just admit that there are real liabilities to living in an area like that. Do you need to see a heat map to see the crime rates and violence? Do you think that is a conspiracy theory? Do you enjoy being assaulted and burglarized?
- munk-a 7y agoI'm in Canada, I live in New Westminster - the zoning policies that happened in the US never happened up here so there are a few bad neighborhoods, but people are people, crime happens everywhere. I'm just happy the chances I'll die from a gunshot wound dropped suddenly when I emigrated from the states.
- apostacy 7y agoI will never apologize for not wanting me kids to deal with what I had to deal with. There are bad neighborhoods, and it is wrong that the government is taking people and dumping them in our communities. I don't hate these people, I don't blame them for their plight. But they are still more likely to be dangerous. Would you drop your kids off at a daycare center in a prison, or a drug rehab clinic? Most of the people are probably still good, but a larger proportion of them will be dangerous.
- drb91 7y ago> There are bad neighborhoods Poor people are forced to live there because that is the only affordable place. These places require better public housing and public service rights.
- apostacy 7y agoReally, so if a bunch of people in wealthy suburbs and people in public housing switched geographical locations, then their behavior would change? I hope you can see how ludicrous that is. Is their something in the air perhaps, that makes people in Bed-Stuy or South-Central Los Angeles more violent? You are putting the cart before the horse. It is the other way around. And so, you can put these people in wealthy suburbs, but it won't actually transform them into the residents of those suburbs.
- drb91 7y ago> I am still wondering why you don't consider moving there The commute sucks. We need public housing closer to public transit and employment centers.
- apostacy 7y agoThe South Bronx and Crown Heights are 20 minutes from downtown Manhattan. Their access to public transit is some of the best in the country. And yet you would never live there, because of the people. At best, you'd move to a gentrification beach-head. Because you are not being honest in your assertion that the only difference between people in those neighborhoods is their lack of access to public transit!
- drb91 7y agoThe issue with the housing projects isn’t the poor people, it’s underinvestment in public housing and services.