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Originally Posted by DrPhil
There was a successfully integrated housing complex in either Chicago or St. Louis years ago. It worked because residents could not tell (so they claimed) whether their neighbor was middle class or poor.
It proved what many of us already know, which is that poor neighborhoods are run down and criminogenic, not because of the failed efforts of the majority of the residents. Given better living and crime fighting resources, poorer neighborhoods do not differ that much from high income neighborhoods. Law abiding and tax paying citizens generally want the same things regardless of whether they can afford it.
Things like this work in small doses. Despite the shock value of it all, it will most likely be implemented in small doses and to very little fanfair.
This society is class and race segregated by chance (city planning, districting, schooling/zoning, etc.) and by choice. It is impossible to impact the chance without interfering with the choice.
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What was the neighborhood that was supposidly successful? You said years ago? How about today?
Small doses of success is not success when you average in the large scale failures.
I don't believe that people in the poor neighborhoods want the same things as people in affluent neighborhoods. The people in those hoods don't even pick up the garbage on their front steps. Half of their kids don't even go to school. Lack of money is not the cause, it is the effect.
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