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Old 01-17-2008, 10:24 PM
 
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I'm not sure I'm understanding your sentence correctly, but the way I seem to be understanding this is that you're saying that it's ok to have ghetto's in the city but not in the above mentioned suburban areas?

It's definitely sad, no matter where you are. Public houses are known to be problematic. I guess it was a well intended program that had an effect with the opposite outcome. Troublemakers are not wanted anywhere (suburbs or city), and finding a solution is obviously not an easy one.
You weren't understanding my post correctly, but I'll bring some clarity for you...

Many people are cheering the revitalization/removal of public housing out of the city of Atlanta, but the people are just being displaced elsewhere. So there is still all of the problems associated with the concentration of poverty, but just in another part of the metro area. What's making the new situation even worse is that the new concentrated poverty is in areas without the urban infrastructure/urban amenities (transit, walkable communities, Grady Hospital, etc.) that the city of Atlanta offers.

There should be mixed-income communities/economic integration throughout the entire Metropolitan Atlanta area.

I'm really worried about Clayton County in particular. But, I do think there is a ray of hope (for Clayton County) that will start appearing in about five to ten years.
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Old 01-17-2008, 10:26 PM
 
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I'm not sure I'm understanding your sentence correctly, but the way I seem to be understanding this is that you're saying that it's ok to have ghetto's in the city but not in the above mentioned suburban areas?

It's definitely sad, no matter where you are. Public houses are known to be problematic. I guess it was a well intended program that had an effect with the opposite outcome. Troublemakers are not wanted anywhere (suburbs or city), and finding a solution is obviously not an easy one.

P.S. It's not ok for concentrated poverty to be anywhere.
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