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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: housing projects
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Date: Wed, 26-Dec-84 12:38:17 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 26 12:38:17 1984
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> people who moved into the project.  The dorms and apartments occupied
> by many Ga Tech students were significantly worse than the newly
> finished project.  Less than 4 years from the time the project was
> turned over to the poor it was intended for, it was a slum.  The
> people who moved in were not willing to live a middle America
> lifestyle, EVEN WHEN IT WAS GIVEN TO THEM FOR FREE.

It takes more than amenities to make a housing project good to live in.
See the research of Jane Jacobs and her school of sociologists.  If a
middle-class lifestyle means you can't go out on the porch and chat
with passing neighbors, it's no wonder that people don't want it.

And it takes more than housing to make a lifestyle.  If you don't have
the money, you'll probably have to put up with bad food, bad air, bad
clothing, bad schools, and bad working conditions.  And, consequently,
bad tempers.

I concede that poverty is a tradition in SOME families.  But don't
blame all the poor till you've walked in their shoes.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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