Forcing “fair-housing” rules on neighborhoods cannot, LOGICALLY ever work.
Forcing neighborhoods to become racially integrated, will just result on destruction of the neighborhood’s attractiveness, and when that happens, PEOPLE WILL JUST MOVE OUT to a “better” neighborhood or will establish newer and better neighborhoods.
If HUD were to force the whole country to be racially integrated, then, the entire country would end up being no better off than a poor third-world shithole.
Even the rich and well-off minorities would balk at having their houses and neighborhoods get devalued because of some crazy feel-good regulation
Now, I’d like to see the upper-east side of Manhattan build a project right in the middle of the “rich” neighborhoods, where rents can be in the many thousands of dollars per month, and condo prices can be in the many millions. The “well-off” living in those type of neighborhoods are mostly liberals, so, let’s see how they like having their pricey and attractive and uppity neighborhoods destroyed by their own madness.
I have lived in the Tampa area for more than 30 years now, and I have seen neighborhood after neighborhood destroyed by the equal-housing stupidity and the affordable mortgages madness of the Clinton and Carter administrations. The “better off” have been leaving the city of Tampa and have continued moving more towards the outskirts and suburbs. For me, it’s now time to move again, and guess why? And, I’m not alone, where most of the people that lived in my neighborhood are now gone, and those moving in are not as caring about their properties as those that have left.
But, with liberals, it’s all about the appearance of equal housing and equal rights, and they don’t care who gets hurt, even if it’s they themselves that are being hurt.
Some areas in Tampa are reversing. South Tampa is being “gentrified.” Of course, you and I can’t afford the million-dollar homes that are replacing the slums, but it’s all good. Eventually, the whole area will be out of reach as the New Yorkers have overpopulated and contaminated the East Coast. Tampa is the #1 market in the country, so it’s a great time to sell. Too bad there’s not any great bargains within commuting distance.
I've observed similar problems in apartments in eastern Mira Mesa (part of San Diego). It went "section 8" and immediately attracted a community of drug users and thieves. Lots of domestic violence calls for the PD.
We have a similar problem in my area of Idaho. Large swaths of trailer parks originally established to build enough population to qualify for state liquor licenses. Today, they are inhabited by the welfare class. My wife is a police dispatcher. She knows the names and addresses of the frequent bad actors.