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With all of the bureaucracy, fraud and waste that goes into maintaining public housing/HUD is it time that it should be stopped for the most part? I don't mean kick people out of their homes immediately but put a big focus on giving them alternatives and incentive to not want or need it. There will always be some that really do but with all of the millions of dollars that are spent are there not better ways to spend to help them?
It has given families a much needed roof over their heads but also a perfect environment for crime which perpetuates the dysfunction of their situation.. Many have little incentive to further their lives and are just living their lives in a govt. sanctioned jail with no bars.
How do you think public housing has affected the long term well being of the residents and the cities/towns for the most part? Is it a fair system?
Last edited by Know Nonsense; 01-10-2015 at 10:04 AM..
Hell no. Do you want a bunch of people from the projects being relocated to your neighborhood? If they do away with HUD they have to put these people somewhere. My in-laws beautiful, diverse neighborhood turned into a ghetto after one empty home was converted to low-income housing.
Hell no. Do you want a bunch of people from the projects being relocated to your neighborhood? If they do away with HUD they have to put these people somewhere. My in-laws beautiful, diverse neighborhood turned into a ghetto after one empty home was converted to low-income housing.
So... you are for public housing because public housing destroyed your in-laws' neighborhood
Yes, "public housing" should be given to the people who are currently residents in it. No more ever created and all public housing authorities dismantled.
We created public housing, we put residents in it and it did not solve the problems it was claimed to solve. Obviously, it is not a viable idea.
Hell no. Do you want a bunch of people from the projects being relocated to your neighborhood? If they do away with HUD they have to put these people somewhere. My in-laws beautiful, diverse neighborhood turned into a ghetto after one empty home was converted to low-income housing.
Gentrification has its merits. There has to be a way to avoid it, what you are saying. Local zoning, etc. Politics has value if used appropriately. Not talking about dispersing but eliminating. I consider section 8 to be public housing of some sort.
Last edited by Know Nonsense; 01-10-2015 at 10:34 AM..
So... you are for public housing because public housing destroyed your in-laws' neighborhood
I'm for public housing because people who don't work for what they have don't appreciate anything and don't live by the same rules the rest of us do. I'm not saying public housing ruined my in-laws neighborhood, but the types of people who live in public housing will ruin good neighborhoods. If you want to live next to drug dealers and welfare moms, more power to you.
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