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> Use this opportunity to put down 5-6 story high buildings with 2-3BR apartments that are affordable. Use eminent domain if you must to get the land. So you e
by DocTomoe 3y ago
> Use this opportunity to put down 5-6 story high buildings with 2-3BR apartments that are affordable. Use eminent domain if you must to get the land.
So you essentially want to transform a place that is attractive into another slum so that crime can go up and attractiveness sinks, while trampling the rights of homeowners that may have lived there for generations?
Sounds like a great idea.
- mavelikara 3y ago> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- DocTomoe 3y agoAnd yet, wherever we see population density increasing programs implemented like the one OP suggests, we see crime rates increase and a slumification of the area. I think in this case, I am not erecting and burning a straw man, I am pointing out the most likely consequence of a policy which I do believe OP suggested in good faith, but did not think through the consequences.
- Turing_Machine 3y agoYou're right, of course. What the OP was suggesting has been tried many times before. They were called "the projects".