3 ms·
Where do you expect poor people to live exactly?
by michaelmrose 5y ago
Where do you expect poor people to live exactly?
- dragonwriter 5y agoThe standard answer has a convenient acronym: NIMBY.
- ipaddr 5y agoIn places that can support additional social services not available in remote communities. The poor are being kicked out of cities.
- Telemakhos 5y agoIn the big city where they currently live. The rural village I'm in now has a 7% poverty rate, while the nearest big city has a 21% poverty rate. The big city would like to redistribute its poor to suburbs and rural areas and redevelop ("gentrify") the land the poor used to occupy. Poor people don't suddenly come into existence ex nihilo: they exist and live somewhere now. They just need to move into the countryside because the urban real estate is worth too much for them to live on it.