Some residents want SAHA to stay out of Stone Oak

[blackbucket]

And middle income people like me who busted our asses to get our heads above water. If I wanted to live in a low income neighborhood, I would move there. I didn't so don't give handouts to live in a neighborhood that you couldn't afford otherwise. Sacrifice, bust ass and if it is priority of yours, you can achieve it.

This whole deal was ridiculous from the beginning.

[SequSpur]

WGAF about this anyway. I don't. Nobody gave a about what I did today, so em.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Sounds like a little social engineering experiment by SAHA to me, and one fit to piss a lot of people off. They did the same thing here, interspersing public housing throughout all kinds of suburbs, rich, middle income and poor, from the 1960s onward.

It worked in some places, usually with stand alone houses, because there a community network is more likely to develop between neighbours with land to look after. I grew up in a duplex (one large building split into two houses) in a rich suburb although my family is not rich (totally middle class ), and the public housing tennant next door was an alcoholic single mother who, at first, was very difficult to live next to. However, as my mother got to know her and they developed an "understanding", her behaviour improved, and everyone learned to get along. It helped both sides as she stabilised her life and we didn't have any complaints with her behaviour. Community bonds made the situation work.

However, from the perspective of a cab driver (I drove for 6 years) who knew the city from end to end and dealt with all it's people, the same idea didn't didn't work in apartment complexes which, over time, became slums and were progressively knocked down over the last 15 years. They were dens of poverty, crime and drug addiction (we had a bad heroin problem in the 80s and 90s). Those public housing tennants have now mostly been redistributed to stand alone houses or town houses in outlying suburbs.

I can't say what will work over there because our societies are very different.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

What did you do today,Sequ?