I think public housing projects should be abandoned, rather scatter low income housing in more prosperous neighborhoods so that poverty isn't concentrated, giving people access to more economicly simulated areas to live and work in and raise families in will help.lamprey263
They began implementing this where I live and in theory it's a good idea but doesn't work. All that's happened is they've moved the crime from downtown into a nicer part of town which is slowly becoming a not so nice part of town. You cant just take families from a low income area and stick them in a wealthier area. Some people just dont want to be integrated and mixing the wealthy or even middle income with low income just doesn't work out well. Remember when you were younger there was always the "rich school" that every other school hated. It had all the "rich kids" and all people did was talk crap about anyone who went there. Well this stigma applies to low income vs. middle income families. If you have ever lived in a bad area you know that most of the people don't think to highly of a guy in a suit. There is a social barrier that cant be overlooked.
More and more cars get broken into, more houses get robbed/broken into, and the highschools that were once a leader in education are now becoming just another school with the same crap you would get in any other school. You have people that want to better themselves and their family and use the opportunity given to them to better their standing in life. Thats the minority though. The majority, is people who are used to living a lifestyle of drugs, confrontation, and general crime, who already have an extreme dislike for the wealthy to middle income families. Then the government gives them a house for next to nothing in a nice area but the people themselves don't change. You end up with a criminals paradise. Cheap living and a bunch of nice things that other people worked for that you can take.
In theory trying to spread the wealth and opportunity sounds nice, but trying to force that change upon people that don't want it or abuse it never ends well.
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