Why can't it be built away from neighborhoods that don't want it?
Is that to much like the projects?
Due to rising rents, America’s homeless ranks graying as older people retire on streets
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Is that to much like the projects?
Laidbackman
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A lot in this group got caught up in that "war on drugs" nonsense, and got felons. Then they wounded up working many years off the books, reducing their social security. What a mess.Donald Whitehead Jr., executive director of the Washington-based advocacy group National Coalition for the Homeless, said Black, Latino and Indigenous people who came of age in the 1980s amid recession and high unemployment rates are disproportionately represented among the homeless.
Many nearing retirement never got well-paying jobs and didn’t buy homes because of discriminatory real estate practices.
and there’s your problem among minorities
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The homeless problem here in Denver is INSANE!
Straight up tent cities in public parks and on sidewalks.
And alot of the increasing number of homeless are Black...
13% of the population nationally and 44% of the homeless.
But let the coli tell it homelessness is a white people problem.
And the Bezos thread is loaded with TLR posters
for capitalism.
If you build all them together in one area, then you are essentially just building more projects.
it's best to scatter them amongst good communities. A young person has a much better chance making it in live if the community that is raising him (yes it takes a village) has also made it, Than surrounding him with nothing but other struggling people.
This is the same reason it's hard to rehabilitate criminals, because in prison they are just surrounded by more criminals.
Because then it ends up isolated in an economic desert without jobs, services, healthy food, etc.
Literally
for segregation and white flight conservative brehs.
Seattle has an entire program to desegregate housing and spread out economic opportunity just like you're saying. It's still in its infancy but it looks like it's working:
America has a housing segregation problem. Seattle may just have the solution.
Most American cities have a stark racial divide. In Seattle, the divide runs north to south: North Seattle is largely white; South Seattle is largely not.
And as is usually the case in the US, the racial divide is also an opportunity divide. The north is richer and has more expensive houses and higher-ranked schools than the south. Research released by a group of economists last year confirmed this impression in more detail. In some North Seattle neighborhoods (like Broadview), children who grew up there in the 1990s were earning average incomes of around $53,000 by their mid-30s. But if you went farther south, particularly to the Central District (the historic home of Seattle’s black community, pre-gentrification at least), you start to see averages more like $24,000, or $25,000, or $29,000.
Research by some of the same economists confirmed a causal link: Living in certain neighborhoods seems to expand opportunity, and living in other neighborhoods seems to diminish it.
Now a new project, a continuation of those previous studies, seeks to use those lessons to improve American housing policy. A team of researchers — Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Larry Katz, Stefanie DeLuca, Peter Bergman, and Christopher Palmer — collaborated with the Seattle Housing Authority (which distributes Section 8 housing vouchers in the city) and the King County Housing Authority (which distributes them in surrounding suburbs) to try something new.
The way housing assistance normally works in major cities is that housing authorities have limited budgets that they use to distribute money for rent to a subset of needy families. (These are authorized by Section 8 of the Housing Act of 1937, and known as “Section 8 vouchers.”) The mystery for the researchers was that even after getting a subsidy, many families chose not to move to a better area that offered better opportunity. Why was that? And what could be done about it?
So in Seattle, the researchers put a twist on the housing voucher system. For this experiment, a random subset of people receiving vouchers for the first time would get more than just the rental subsidy. They would also be given information on which neighborhoods promise the most opportunity for their kids, based on the research data. They’d also be assigned “navigators” whose job it was to walk them through the apartment application process, and receive additional financial assistance with down payments if necessary.
It’s a simple intervention — and, more than a year in, it looks like it yielded big results.
The experiment found that the additional support raised the share of families moving to high-opportunity neighborhoods from 14 percent to 54 percent. “This is the largest effect I’ve ever seen in a social science intervention,” Chetty said in an email.
It’s also an experiment that has left participants with an overwhelmingly positive experience with a government bureaucracy for once. “People say that Seattleites don’t smile at you, or look up to say hi to you, but these people were really, really nice,” Nikki Manlapaz, a mother who moved from a low- to high-opportunity neighborhood through the program. “They just took all the worry and stress away from me.”
If it can be replicated at scale, the experimenters may have hit on a powerful new tool for dismantling residential segregation in the United States.
Article is much longer that's just the beginning.
Raphaello
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Housing needs to stop being treated as an investment vehicle. It's disgusting
Greed has taken down every institution since man first set foot on the earth, but mufukkaz refuse to acknowledge history's lessons.
beaniemac
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dude, most jobs are in cities and the majority of the population lives in cities. unless u have a fully work from home job, then city living is what u need to do in order to pay the bills and have a decent job.
Gritsngravy
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Are small towns really even that cheap, and what type jobs is out there
We are seeing that retirement is no longer the golden dream,” said Kushel. “A lot of the working poor are destined to retire onto the streets.”
That’s especially true of younger baby boomers, now in their late 50s to late 60s, who don’t have pensions or 401(k) accounts. About half of both women and men ages 55 to 66 have no retirement savings, according to the census.
-This is so sad.
That’s especially true of younger baby boomers, now in their late 50s to late 60s, who don’t have pensions or 401(k) accounts. About half of both women and men ages 55 to 66 have no retirement savings, according to the census.
-This is so sad.
There are whole empty sections in this country where nobody lives. There are hundreds of small and medium sized mid-western and southern towns that have affordable housing. If there was no affordable housing in those places then how could illegal and legal immigrants move into those little ass towns to find work and have homes? But you actually believe that American citizens couldn't find homes in those towns?
This country is just full of lazy ass elitist entitled people. The people in this country are so full of shyt that they even have the homeless population thinking that they are too good to live in small towns.
They do but those aren't the areas that need it. They're always building new housing in the high desert in California but nobody wants to live there because the jobs suck and there's nothing to do.
I know folks with land down south in some pretty rural areas that get calls every other week from companies outside of the area trying to get them to sell. It's almost like what was happening in NYC right before when the hipsters took over. The secret is out about "down south" to these investment groups.
