[ExI] Basic Income - Basic Housing?

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> One way to avoid creating ghettoes is for the public housing agency to
>>> make spot purchases in established areas.
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>> ### A very effective method of transforming an established area into
>> ghetto.
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> One apartment in the block is owned by the housing authority, the others
> are privately owned. There is perhaps an increased risk of getting a bad
> neighbour but that can happen anyway.
>

### There are tipping points. One deranged, depraved neighbor does not
destroy a neighborhood but a few can markedly depress home values, and then
a death spiral sometimes occurs - cheap housing attracts poor people, soon
crime rises, and everything goes to hell.

A long time ago, rigorous neighborhood associations could exclude
undesirables, and quality of neighborhoods was thus maintained. No longer.
Now only money, in the form of, of all things, high local taxes, is still
legal as a proxy measure used to exclude undesirables. The less affluent
can no longer protect themselves.

Rafal
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