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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]to 10:01 -- read back in this thread and you will see people suggesting concentrating poor people (not middle class homeowners) in the suburbs where they supposedly will be better off.[/quote]

Hmmm...  The only thing I came across was this:

[quote]More poverty in the suburbs means [b]deconcentration[/b] of poverty. DC's housing agency should be counseling applicants on how to use their Section 8 vouchers in MD and VA. You can get more house for your money, there are better job opportunities, and the schools are better. It's nuts that DC spends so much trying to keep poor folks trapped in the city.[/quote]

...which seems to make the exact opposite point. When DC has 80% of the region's poor, and the vast surrounding suburbs 20%, something's wrong. If you're going to reverse the concentration of poverty, you're going to have to increase the poverty share in the suburbs and decrease it in the city.

Funny how we hear every day on this board how the schools are awful in DCPS, and that sending your kid to a DCPS middle- or high-school is tantamount to child-abuse. But when it comes to educational options for poor folks, giving them that option will only "supposedly" make them better off.[/quote]

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