Works better for who? All it does is spread the crime around to formerly crimeless parts of the city.
Look at Dallas… that asshole Buchmeyer forced the city to break up the projects in 1985, and now, 24 years later, parts of town that used to be relatively crime free and nice (say… most of Lake Highlands) have serious ghetto apartment areas with prostitution, gang activity, murders, and the usual gamut of ghetto crime, which has depressed property values lower than they would have otherwise been, and forced people to the suburbs because they “don’t feel safe”.
I say put 'em all in one place where the cops can keep an eye on them, rather than spread them out where they just spread the blight and are harder to control.
OMG YES!!! I have NO freaking clue why “disabled” and senoirs are always lumped together. There’s also a HUGE diffy between someone who deals regularly with addictive behavoir issues, severe schiezos , and the type of " Ummm who’s President Obama" types who aren’t exactly MR, and "classic disabilites. I really think that those people should be catagorizied differently from someone with a classic disabilty.
That can also be a reason why public housing is messed up…really messed up people tend to congregate there.
I don’t know the answer to that, but taxis were rare in Holly Park too, even though the crime rate was low (no stats, just personal experience). Sometimes a neighborhood gets an undeserved bad reputation.
Also, I suspect a taxi driver might prefer a fare going to the airport over one going to the grocery store or the doctor’s office. Which one is more likely in a housing project?
Well you know…most of the crime tends to be resident on resident. And overall, most of the violence tends to be perpetrated by a small minority. Unfortunatly there’s no other redeeming qualities in “hell hole areas” so the problem seems bigger then it IS.
You can blame modernist sociologists for the failure of low-income housing projects. The problem is that sociologists, in the hubris and ignorance, mistook their class prejudice for fact and then began designing cities based on what turned out to be complete nonsense. We are fortunate that there is enough chaos and cross-interference going on in most major cities to blunt the worst impacts of sociologists and developers; to see what happens when they have total control, one need only look at Brasillia.
Brasillia was touted as the city of the future. It was constructed, from scratch, in the middle of the jungle, every brick, building, and street laid out according to the strict dictates of modernist social design. Today, Brasillia is a decaying monstrosity with one of the highest crime rates and THE highest murder rate on the planet.
Not to Hijack too much, But I had absolutely no idea Brasilla had those kind of problems. The pictures of it look always really nice. I had always kind of had the thought in the back of my head it was a success. Is there some kind of pristine protected center surrounded by crap?
I’m just very curious because I used to work with a guy who was from Brasillia, but I don’t think we ever talked about it much. (When ever Brazil came up in Conversation he would always talk about either Rodizio or the soccer team ;))
In addition, feminist-inspired welfare laws make relatively generous provisions for single moms, giving them no financial incentive to keep the dad around.
Numerous studies have shown that black taxi drivers have the same discriminatory practices as white ones, showing that the simplistic cry of “racism” is false, and that class prejudice, or even rational discrimination, is more likely
Ah, then I was misunderstood. I never said the cab drivers were racist, rather that due to the undeserved reputation of the complex as being a “dangerous place” taxis and pizza delivery drivers (of all colors of the rainbow) were unwilling to enter. They may not know the history of the neighborhood or the origins of the bad reputation.
The complex is not any more or less dangerous than the neighboring complex (where I lived) which is an almost identical with respect to economic class. However it has a bad reputation that has evolved as a result of racial profiling by local police (who have a rather acrimonious relationship with residents there) and negative racial stereotyping from residents of neighboring streets.
As far as I’m aware, the actual crime rate of the area as a whole (both complexes and neighboring streets) has been very low for decades, but my neighbor’s kid growing up in the newer complex, was told several times by school teachers not to go play in the older complex because “that’s where all the drug dealers/drunk Indians live”.
Our complex was referred to as the “clean complex”, the other one was “dirty” because “immigrants bring bugs.”