You should have seen Turtle Creek a low-middle class apartment development in Palatine in the 80s. It was an FHA subsidized development that targeted Palatine because it was too white, too low crime, too education. Up to that point it had been farmland, but was being developed rapidly and was affordable, but had no bus service. So of course they’re racists.
The development failed and went bankrupt, so FHA/HUD populated it with Section 8 recipients who brought their hoodlum boyfriends/babydaddies and children out with them. The Palatine police were totally unprepared for the gang activity that followed.
Maybe we should stop pretending that poverty is simply the absence of material goods?
In a more ideal world, these types of apartments would be put where all the rich liberals live. Let them be with their people.
Yep. I briefly lived in an apt. off of Baldwin just northeast of there around 1985. It went all Sec 8 right after that, and is still scary and run down.
You hit the nail on the head. Political correctness does not allow us to discuss the real issues involved with people living in poverty. We can’t discuss the reasons why some people end up that way. We can’t discuss productive ways to get them out of poverty. We can’t discuss what will happen to nice neighborhoods if we have them live in scattered Section 8 developments.
Instead, we are supposed to repeat liberal mantras that they are grappling with poverty due to no fault of their own, that poverty and gangs and drugs just happen to them for unexplained reasons, that multiple babies and the whole “baby mama” culture just happens for no reason, etc. etc. But in our compassion, we are supposed to want to help people who are grappling with poverty. So, Cabrini-Green was a hell hole? We don’t ask why it was a hell hole, we just move people around and are shocked if their new homes become hell holes.