Mixed-income neighbourhoods

[sabotabby]

There's certainly something to be said for projects like this one, intended to decrease the ghettoization of the poor, rebuild crumbling neighbourhoods, and promote communities.

My problem? Why is it always about building market condos in poor areas? If mixed-income was really meant to benefit poor people, they'd be building social housing in Rosedale and Yorkville. In every case I can think of where mixed-income developments happen in an existing neighbourhood, it's always about the invasion of the rich into prime real estate that someone has inconveniently built a housing project on.

I sense ulterior motives, and a very local sort of imperialism.

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[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

I'm still more inclined to support Section 8 like it's in Minnesota where poor people can live where they want and pay a third of their income for rent and the government takes care of the rest. That way there's not this horrible density of poor people taking out their frustrations on each other.

Of course, this is all colored by the two years when I was a kid where I lived in the housing projects. Hate those places with a burning passion.

[sabotabby]

That makes a lot more sense. There's something to be said for creating communities that can pool their resources, but often housing projects are just a means of keeping poor people out of sight. You know, until their land becomes valuable and their houses are razed and it's all expropriated for condos.