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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
I always find it interesting that when middle-class folks move to the suburbs from the inner city, it's "the American Dream" but when poor folks move from the inner city to the suburbs, it's "The Plan" and "cultural genocide".

As I said before, let's do a thought experiment: give a poor family $2000 a month to spend on housing in the DC area. Anyone who thinks that, at the end of a year they'll be living in a two bedroom apartment in a shitty school district is deluding themselves. They'll be in the burbs living in a three bedroom house in a decent school district.

Who are the two groups who are so desperate not to see this happen? Classist and racist suburbanites who want to maintain the current system of apartheid on the one hand, and politicians who rely on a large pool of poor votes to maintain their access to the levers of power on the other.

Sure as hell doesn't benefit the poor folks. And the fact that a few bleeding hearts can manage to say "fix the schools" is not helping them out either.[/quote]

Clearly there is no support for using what might be termed the "carrot" method of bribing the poor to leave. So, that leaves the "stick" of decreasing services and raising the cost of living so that other jurisdictions become more attractive. Of course, the "bleeding heart" solution of improving the schools might stop the flow of upwardly mobile poor people leaving the city. Face with this reality, I'm comfortable with the bleeding heart solution.
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