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No it was wrecked by the city council who created the housing ghettos.[/quote]

The public housing projects were built back in the 1940's and they reflected a concentration of poverty that occurred as the middle class fled Old Town (and the poor did not) in the period from 1910 or so to 1940.  So the blame is really with all the conditions leading to housing segregation in the first half of the 20th century.   [/quote]

There was nothing preventing them from tearing down the public housing.  Well until they passed that stupid local law in the 70's. But back then, no one wanted to live in Old Town anyway. [/quote]

You said "created" and you were wrong.   Whether tearing down public housing that had not reached the end of its useful life, at a time when the demand for the land was not that great, would have been good public policy, I will not venture to discuss.

In the last 20 years they have torn down a bunch of public housing[b], scattered the replacement units around the city[/b], encouraged the building of new market rate units around Old Town.  If your desire is to deconcentrate low income people in Old Town, you really do not have a lot to complain about, in terms of City Council actions.

I guess this would not be DCUM if people were not complaining, especially about the presence of the poors. [/quote]

well yes and no, yes, the moved whole buildings and blocks of it from Old Town but is it really scattered if they are simply putting up rows and rows of the same type of housing elsewhere or whole building.  They should have actually scattered it meaning they should have disbanded the entire public housing network and gone to a voucher system.

It is crazy that our tax dollars go to house people in such a tiny little City such as Alexandria.

They need to end the generational poverty.  I know people whine about the illegals but 9 times out of 10 in the City the illegals and legal immigrants are living in cheap, old market rate apartments.  They pull full rent for crappy properties but in the long run that will be better for their kids who will learn to rely on themselves and not govt housing.

I looked at some City docs and they had a poll of residents a public housing community meeting. 26% had lived in public housing for 20+ years!!! That's crazy.[/quote]

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