I never understood this logic. Could it be, perhaps, that these neighborhoods have better family cohesion, a safer community, and generally better attendance rates at school because the housing is expensive? Could it be that people are willing to pay more money to live in places where the crime rate is lower?
No. There must be something magical about this location in particular, so we just force the communities to accept low income housing. It's not like household income is a strong predictor of delinquency or crime at all.
I swear, they repeat this pattern over and over and wonder why it never works. See nice community of middle to upper-middle class houses, add low-income housing. Community becomes slowly, gradually worse and eventually anyone with moderate affluence moves to another nicer neighborhood-- leaving the entire thing rotten and exactly as bad as the neighborhoods the people in the low-income housing moved from.
[–] jxfaith 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I never understood this logic. Could it be, perhaps, that these neighborhoods have better family cohesion, a safer community, and generally better attendance rates at school because the housing is expensive? Could it be that people are willing to pay more money to live in places where the crime rate is lower?
No. There must be something magical about this location in particular, so we just force the communities to accept low income housing. It's not like household income is a strong predictor of delinquency or crime at all.
I swear, they repeat this pattern over and over and wonder why it never works. See nice community of middle to upper-middle class houses, add low-income housing. Community becomes slowly, gradually worse and eventually anyone with moderate affluence moves to another nicer neighborhood-- leaving the entire thing rotten and exactly as bad as the neighborhoods the people in the low-income housing moved from.