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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Considering that most cities spend a considerable amount of energy trying to figure out how to reduce poverty, to pretend that increasing the poverty in a neighborhood 300% to make it a high poverty neighborhood is no big deal seems like an odd posture that is unlikely to find broad support and not because as you think people are racist and classist NIMBYS. The reason is because it’s an undesirable policy outcome. Hope that helps to clarify things for you. [/quote]

Cities try to reduce poverty, not reduce poor people. One thing that would help is making housing available for less money. (I would also dispute the notion that every person who qualifies for affordable housing makes below-poverty level wages, and even if we grant you that, I'd also dispute the notion that 27 percent poverty would suddenly make Tenleytown "a high poverty neighborhood," since it would still be 73 percent the very wealthy people who already live here.)

Having more income diversity in this neighborhood may be an undesirable policy outcome for you, and I will concede, for a lot of people who live here. But so what? That doesn't mean it's an undesirable policy outcome for everyone -- it certainly doesn't make it an undesirable policy outcome for me. I suspect it would be a very desirable policy outcome for the people who can't afford to live here now but who could if there was more affordable housing here. [/quote]

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