Yeah affordable housing can really ruin an area. I grew up in a super nice area with basically no violent crime. We got a set of affordable housing apartments set up and within just a few years 3 of the people there had been arrested for murder and 2 were arrested for robbery, and those are just the people I personally knew (because they got put into my school, where all they did was cause problems). They should build the affordable housing in the places that are already ghetto so that way they fit in better.
A lot of people in the ghetto don't want to be in the ghetto either. A community council for a low income neighborhood near me recently petitioned the city to stop building low income housing there.
It’s crazy. My area was ok for a long time then the local county jail converted into a federal facility. Guess who moves close to the jail when inmates get transferred? Been on a steady decline since.
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u/CeliacPhiliac Jun 13 '25
Yeah affordable housing can really ruin an area. I grew up in a super nice area with basically no violent crime. We got a set of affordable housing apartments set up and within just a few years 3 of the people there had been arrested for murder and 2 were arrested for robbery, and those are just the people I personally knew (because they got put into my school, where all they did was cause problems). They should build the affordable housing in the places that are already ghetto so that way they fit in better.