Where should low-income housing projects be located?

[quantumleap 0]

I hate to spring this on you but many in public housing do hold down jobs. They are single mothers or fathers, the under educated and disabled that live on the pittance of minimum wage.
Try paying 5 or 6 hundred dollars a month rent when you barely net $200 dollars a week.

Millions of illegal immigrants make that much or less who do not collect government assistance for housing. If someone makes $200/wk. they should either live with someone else to share the costs or they should get a better job. There are still plenty of jobs that pay $10/hr. If they live in an area that doesn't have jobs like that they can move to places that do. Many people in this situation already have.

 

[Phaedrus 0]

In statist fantasies, and nowhere else.

A distant second would be to rehab all non-government buildings within the DC limits into housing projects, and relocate as many denizens from the worst projects around the country to there. Then build a giant Pat Buchanan-esque fence around DC. Several problems solved at once!


Phaedrus

 

[gynecologist 0]

There are still plenty of jobs that pay $10/hr

What kind of jobs?

 

[DarrylParsons 0]

In statist fantasies, and nowhere else.

A distant second would be to rehab all non-government buildings within the DC limits into housing projects, and relocate as many denizens from the worst projects around the country to there. Then build a giant Pat Buchanan-esque fence around DC. Several problems solved at once!


Phaedrus

Good answer!

 

[Dawoofdaddy 0]

This is actually very smart approach. It is the old and massive projects that are known to be a really big problems. If you keep them small they can be just an inconvenience probably because there is not enough internal resources and organization for it to become a bigger problem even on a smaller scale. The surprising fact that the crime in a good neighborhood does not rise with the appearance of a new low-income project. However, it will certainly will arise if you create a large area of those and let them brew. Think about what happened in France this summer.

Actually, this is not a smart approach. Many that believe it is a smart approach, of course most likely live under the premise, "not in my back yard".

Id be surprised if the level of safety doesnt fall in formerly "good" neighborhoods, after low-income housing projects are built nearby.

Another aspect that is probably excluded from any study is the increased costs in so-called good neighborhoods on various security after a low income housing is built nearby and the increased crime would be without the increased security.

Data, its nice seeing you posting in this forum. Ive read many of your posts in various offshore forum threads.