<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stathisp@gmail.com" target="_blank">stathisp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Stathis Papaioannou <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stathisp@gmail.com" target="_blank">stathisp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><br></div></div><div>One way to avoid creating ghettoes is for the public housing agency to make spot purchases in established areas. </div>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>### A very effective method of transforming an established area into ghetto.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### 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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Rafal</div></div>
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