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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do people on this thread remember the old housing projects?   No one liked those and research showed concentrated poverty was bad so they were all knocked down in the 90s under the HOPE vi program.
The other problem is that most of the people camping are not capable of being rehabilitated or trained.  Many of them don’t just need housing and jobs—-their needs are often far more significant.  [/quote]
Housing projects still exist. Maybe not here but they do exist elsewhere. [/quote]

Not the massive ones that existed in the 60s to the 90s—those have almost all been knocked down.  The area by Nats park was just block after block of projects.    Even the infamous Cabrini greens in Chicago was mostly knocked down:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini–Green_Homes
I’m sure that at least some of the people living on the streets currently would have been willing/able to be housed in those projects—they are not as successful in things like section 8 housing or mixed-income developments.
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