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hunter

(40,689 posts)
Sat Aug 22, 2015, 07:33 PM Aug 2015

Yes.

In any case it's good to have a mix of incomes in any neighborhood, otherwise banks go away for expensive check cashing places, supermarkets and pharmacies go away for sketchy expensive liquor stores / markets.

The U.S.A. wants everyone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, but then beats down anyone who does.

The solution to this problem is to charge sliding scale rents based on income, from fully subsidized and up to put no greater than market value. If there's still a shortage of housing, build more! Duh.

It seems the wealthy and powerful are always seeking to destroy established lower income communities and create classes of homeless people that they can point to and "That could be you, prole! Work harder, don't complain!"

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