Is it possible that maybe it isn't just a "few whites that hold and iron grip" on a specific area objecting to potential plans to add affordable housing in neighborhoods that ALREADY have their fair share of social/economic problems? IMHO-we as a society, do a great disservice to those that currently require "affordable housing" by continuing to cram them into lower class neighborhoods. As you probably already know, many of the skills necessary to become a productive, self-sustaining member of society are much more easily taught when the majority of the examples around you have already acquired them.
Jim and I have had several conversations on the matter of the proposed location of affordable housing, and I've always come away with the understanding that he feels much like I do - there's definitely a need for it, but it shouldn't continue to be concentrated in very specific and already severly impacted neighborhoods.
Maybe I'm missing the points (and again, I probably don't understand the isssues as well as you do) you're attempting to make. If so, please feel free to expand upon your original rebuttal to Jim Graham's recent post.
Dennis Plante Jordan
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