Comments on: Soapbox: Preserve the public-housing safety net http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/30/soapbox-preserve-the-public-housing-safety-net/ Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:00:16 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dale http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/30/soapbox-preserve-the-public-housing-safety-net/comment-page-1/#comment-36369 Dale Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:16:20 +0000 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/30/soapbox-preserve-the-public-housing-safety-net/#comment-36369 Didn't CL recently post an article reporting that follow up on the voucher programs was overwhlmingly positively received the by the recipients of the vouchers? I think it was in the last two months or so. The general point was to interview people who had been "displaced" by the vouchers and the response from thm was how much they liekd their new neighborhoods. I don't make the case that vouchers are a 100% answer, but based on crime and the continuing poverty cycle present in our public housing projexts, I can make the case that the model in use for my lifetime has been and abject failure and require change. Regarding the previous post, I think the key word in the "elite Euro-educated African Americans" diatribe is "educated". Didn’t CL recently post an article reporting that follow up on the voucher programs was overwhlmingly positively received the by the recipients of the vouchers? I think it was in the last two months or so.

The general point was to interview people who had been “displaced” by the vouchers and the response from thm was how much they liekd their new neighborhoods.

I don’t make the case that vouchers are a 100% answer, but based on crime and the continuing poverty cycle present in our public housing projexts, I can make the case that the model in use for my lifetime has been and abject failure and require change.

Regarding the previous post, I think the key word in the “elite Euro-educated African Americans” diatribe is “educated”.

]]> By: Warren G http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/30/soapbox-preserve-the-public-housing-safety-net/comment-page-1/#comment-36365 Warren G Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:46:30 +0000 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/30/soapbox-preserve-the-public-housing-safety-net/#comment-36365 Peace and blessings. I grew up next to public housing in Washington DC Carver Homes in the 70's and it was a place with higher crime and lower income people but it had much love and support and the people supported each other. The US capitalist structure has changed tremendously from those days. Globalization, technical innovations, civil rights, and the serious decrease in oil availability has changed the view of how to deal with poor communities, especially predominately African American in the US. This American system does not care about providing enough affordable housing for their less capable citizens. The majority of professional class whites are tried of the massive commutes and want back into cities across America. Most public housing is on prime in-town real estate. You do the math. The sad part about all of this is that most of the draconian actions against African American on a local state and federal level are pushed through by elite Euro-educated African Americans who are one or two generations from public housing themselves. We have a serious psychosis which is deep in our psychology implanted by 250 years of slavery and 100 years of Jim Crow. The fact of the manner, the decision has been made that the low-income, poor, minority people of the US will be pushed to the outline areas of all the major cities for the foreseeable future. Peace and blessings. I grew up next to public housing in Washington DC Carver Homes in the 70’s and it was a place with higher crime and lower income people but it had much love and support and the people supported each other. The US capitalist structure has changed tremendously from those days. Globalization, technical innovations, civil rights, and the serious decrease in oil availability has changed the view of how to deal with poor communities, especially predominately African American in the US.

This American system does not care about providing enough affordable housing for their less capable citizens. The majority of professional class whites are tried of the massive commutes and want back into cities across America. Most public housing is on prime in-town real estate. You do the math.

The sad part about all of this is that most of the draconian actions against African American on a local state and federal level are pushed through by elite Euro-educated African Americans who are one or two generations from public housing themselves. We have a serious psychosis which is deep in our psychology implanted by 250 years of slavery and 100 years of Jim Crow.

The fact of the manner, the decision has been made that the low-income, poor, minority people of the US will be pushed to the outline areas of all the major cities for the foreseeable future.

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