Gregory Luce wrote:
WM: I have to disagree with Mr. Luce about Collaborative Village under the aegis that the ends do not justify the means. Collaborative Village was plunked into Phillips against ordinance, against neighborhood. It is one of the more outstanding examples of poverty pimping in this area..... Supportive housing of the kind proposed and/or being implemented by Collaborative Village Initiative or Lydia House are good models to help with these issues.
The Collaborative Village program may be just what the doctor ordered, but it is built on a dung heap. "The means foreshadow the ends" is actually truer to the mark. Humans being who we are, those folks who come to Collaborative Village for healing and learning and redirection will be subjected to resentment, not only for being ex-cons and etc., but because the neighborhood and the ordinance were dumped to gain the project--subsized by we truly.
What an already hugely disadvantaged neighborhood hears is that city ordinance does not apply to Joe Selvaggio and neighborhood (neighborhood meaning the body politic committee of the whole) needs are immaterial. Instead folks get a long song and dance about Joe Selvaggio having done all this and that for the poor and blah-blah. Tis both true and false, brothers and sisters. Joe's got a blind side wide as a suburban garage and Collaborative Village is one of its names.
WizardMarks, Central
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