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cC2Panda t1_janotiv wrote

Reply to comment by LongIsland1995 in NYC is more ethnically diverse, less racially segregated, report finds by Ice_Business

I've advocated it here before but what I'd really like to see is utilitarian housing projects but have it geared towards middle class people instead of filling it up with low income households. One of the biggest failures of housing projects like Pruitt-Igoe in the past is that the maintenance and upkeep are dependent on the people most vulnerable to market fluctuations, so every downturn in the economy sees the buildings fall into disrepair and those with means to get out do and it's a downward spiral.

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LongIsland1995 t1_jantak1 wrote

Isn't that what Mitchell Lama is?

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cC2Panda t1_jaoiq86 wrote

It gets middle class people into projects most of which were originally built for low income housing. I want tens of thousands of units to be built for the express purpose of middle class rent to ownership.

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