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There have always been a small number of poor to working-class non-Hispanic whites in the projects here. I worked a few years back with couple of Irish guys who grew up in the projects. And maybe the most famous white guy from the PJs is Howard Schultz, who founded Starbucks. But with housing so expensive now I wouldn’t be surprised if the number of white residents in the projects, though still small, is rising. I’d be curious to see numbers on this if they exist.
I'm seeing poor white families in Bronx, NY and Cherry Hill, Baltimore
The poor whites I see all over my Baltimore neighborhood all seem to be clients of our many Methadone clinics. It has crossed my mind that some may be moving in, but I haven't seen any of them going in and out of houses. They can live in Dundalk just as cheap as in Baltimore, so I don't think they are going to move in for economic reasons.
I see this happening more often in poor rural areas and the smaller towns dotting those areas.
The big drawbacks in those places are that they have many of the same problems as poor urban ghettos (just on a smaller scale), less proximity to opportunities than the urban ghetto, but they offer little of the charm of wholesome rural life.
I see many moving to Cheap depressed cities in Eastern PA. From the Big East Coast cities. The Coal region especially.... Cheap old-stock row-housing and gang-free good modern schools. Not coming for jobs. But counties welfare is easy to continue.
There have always been a small number of poor to working-class non-Hispanic whites in the projects here. I worked a few years back with couple of Irish guys who grew up in the projects. And maybe the most famous white guy from the PJs is Howard Schultz, who founded Starbucks. But with housing so expensive now I wouldn’t be surprised if the number of white residents in the projects, though still small, is rising. I’d be curious to see numbers on this if they exist.
Howard Schultz is 65. When he was a kid, NYC was a much whiter city. When the housing projects were first built (30s/40s/50s), many white people lived in them.
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