Doug Mann Writes:
Concentrated poverty is a consequence of discrimination in the housing and job markets, especially the exclusion of African-Americans from the better neighborhoods and jobs. But very little is being done by the government at any level to enforce fair employment and housing laws.
Dennis Plante Responds:
Doug I have to partially disagree. Too many of the African Americans that have been through hard-work, to overcome job discrimmination, have fled to a more quite, serene life in the suburbs. We have lost far too many potential mentors in our inner-city neighborhoods. However, I don't blame those that have fled, as in most I've spoken with have told me it was too painfull to stay and witness the day-to-day life of those they left behind.
Doug Mann Writes:
A lot of housing that is affordable to poor people could be created by building on vacant lots and renovating or replacing uninhabitable dwelling units in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.
Dennis Plante Responds:
Doug I have to disagree wholeheartedly on this. I think the very last thing we need to do is build more affordable dwelling untits in the city's poorest neighborhoods. I personally don't want anymore minority children being forced to grow-up in an environment that offers them basically no-chance of realizing their potential.
Dennis Plante
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