What do y'all think about demolishing projects?

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Should they keep being torn down, the residents given vouchers and spread throughout cities, taking crime with them (that is what's happening, the crime is following) on the hope that the elimination of concentrated poverty will be prove beneficial in the long run? Or should we just keep all the poor people concentrated in taxpayer-funded brick hellholes?

 

[GoPro]

The latter. Those who chose to be upwardly mobile will eventually claw their way out. No sense spreading vermin around; keep it controlled. Hell, I think we need MORE projects on the outskirts of towns. Why should I pay to live in an expensive neighbor and still be at risk of getting robbed by a neighbor?

 

[Poppa_Dock]

definitely not a good idea spreading them around

 

[daze23]

everyone should be living in public housing, comrade

 

[Joe Sixpack]

everyone should be living in public housing, comrade

Are you a commy?

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

A lot of people will say they're for tearing them down...until the former residents start getting vouchers to move into their neighborhood.

 

[Silver Surfer]

funny thing....the projects in the south in some places dont even look like "the projects" from the 80's and 90's.....joints look like apartments....but we know they still the projects

 

[MikelArteta]

Hard to say

 

[ATLien]

everyone should be living in public housing, comrade

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

funny thing....the projects in the south in some places dont even look like "the projects" from the 80's and 90's.....joints look like apartments....but we know they still the projects

You from Jacksonville right? Case in point, Hartwood Place on Harts Road off of Dunn. They look like a nice little all-American apartment community. I had to go out there for something once a while ago and I saw a little kid drinking a 40 out in the open in broad daylight. That 13 year honor student girl got shot and killed out there in crossfire while she was in her room reading. Sad shyt.

 

[Silver Surfer]

You from Jacksonville right? Case in point, Harts Place on Harts Road off of Dunn. They look like a nice little all-American apartment community. I had to go out there for something once a while ago and I saw a little kid drinking a 40 out in the open in broad daylight. That 13 year honor student girl got shot and killed out there in crossfire while she was in her room reading. Sad shyt.

Yep....and that place was a shyt-hole when I was growing up. I remember when I came to the city one year and saw them remodeled...I was like ...then I immediately thought

 

[GoPro]

A lot of people will say they're for tearing them down...until the former residents start getting vouchers to move into their neighborhood.

And the thing is, it's bipartisan. Conservs dont want to subsidize. Libs believe it's noble. Until yea, those people have to move in their neighborhoods. Then it's What was I thinking?

And I'm not saying all project dwellers are scum, but ALOT are.

 

[theworldismine13]

They should be destroyed, every single one of them, public housing is the worst idea ever

property ownership is the fundamental component of the American system, so every single black family is being shunted away from the real economy every year they live in the projects

I do a happy dance everytime I hear about one going down

 

[Jello Biafra]

Should they keep being torn down, the residents given vouchers and spread throughout cities, taking crime with them (that is what's happening, the crime is following) on the hope that the elimination of concentrated poverty will be prove beneficial in the long run? Or should we just keep all the poor people concentrated in taxpayer-funded brick hellholes?

It may sound harsh as fukk but keeping all the trifling concnetrated concentrated in specific pockets in the city is a better solution than disseminating them throughout the city and taking it from a place with a couple of bad areas to one giant shythole.
They tore down the projects in the city I work in and within a years time all of the crime that was concentrated in those projects was now occurring in every neighborhood in the entire city.

 

[theworldismine13]

It may sound harsh as fukk but keeping all the trifling concnetrated concentrated in specific pockets in the city is a better solution than disseminating them throughout the city and taking it from a place with a couple of bad areas to one giant shythole.
They tore down the projects in the city I work in and within a years time all of the crime that was concentrated in those projects was now occurring in every neighborhood in the entire city.

its hard to prove its a directly related but IMO the part of the drop in crime for the past decade has to do with getting rid of projects, its much better to disperse the crime in the big picture, crime might spread but there is less of it overall