5 myths about public housing

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The public housing project in my city recently installed metal fencing and concrete barriers to help stop stray bullets from drive-by shootings. I doubt there’s a waiting list for people trying to move into that neighborhood.
 
Ours tends to be a drug and violence infested source of issues. They can’t afford housing, but they can afford pot, meth, cocaine, heroin, “speedballs” (meth + heroin injections), and all sorts of things.

Only had a couple of “drive by”'s out here. Dickinson had one with the only person getting hurt being some guy who was inside his residence.

I am sure that the ACLU would raise all sorts of fuss, but public housing almost needs weekly drug dog patrols.

Even worse in Canada, where you have places like Medicine Hat that spend a ton of money to put homeless in housing only to have the homeless through booze and drug parties in the apartments. You can guess what happens to property values. And, there are people clamoring for even more to be done for those folks.
 
They always come up with “revitalization tactics” here on council estates. Usually it means installing a playground and some more garbages for the stray needles and a few recycling bins for the booze.
 
It’s a never-ending cycle. People leave the drug and crime infested sections of the city for the suburbs until some SJW types decide that the new areas are in need of some “diversity” so they bring in the public housing and the cycle starts afresh.
 
The two views are not incompatible - negative views by the broader community yet in high demand.

I found the article poorly written, relying upon strawmen and prooftexting to make it’s points.
 
I’d suggest reading some of Ruby Payne’s work on poverty.
 
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