Mixed Income Housing can be very beneficial to a community. It can provide many opportunities for many disadvantaged and financial unstable families and allows them to have a relatively normal life without the deprivations of limited resources and opportunities from living in a ghetto. The problem with mixed housing is that not everybody is on board for the idea. The rich or middle class fear mixed income housing because they attribute poor people with crime or a decreased in equity to their homes. It’s true that a poor neighbourhood is more dangerous than a middleclass neighbourhood, but that is only because they lack opportunity. If the poor had the chance to change their lives I believe that they would. The idea of mixed income housing sounds like an utopia way of thinking, but it is one thing to agree with the idea of it and another to have it in your backyard. I don’t believe the middleclass people would be in favour of this idea based on the prejudice and stereotypes of poor communities.
Would you be in favour of a mixed incoming housing project in your community?
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I've been there, from what I can tell it does work. That is until The Four Writters Club destroyed modern civilization as we know it.
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