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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've wondered this. Most big cities have these massive, ugly, concrete apartments right on the outskirts for low income housing (think Paris or London). We could do this, but...it would tank any school that it's districted to. And then we'd have to throw massive amounts of money at that school to try to raise scores and it would still fail. And then both teachers as well as the county government would be blamed for having these failing schools. Also, when you have that much poverty centralized, it has that section 8 housing effect where a lot of crime moves in (the reason most US cities moved away from housing like that and give vouchers instead).

Instead they should move to more micro housing projects. Like every 10th lot is a low income apartment (and don't permit more than 1 car per apartment to be registered in the state or parked). Every school would get a certain percentage of failing students and would have more resources to help them. Cap it at 25 or 30%.

Or maybe we could have low income apartment housing but only allow people without children to move in to limit any effect on schools. Massive complexes for those without kids. It would help those with kids too because it would free up other housing for them. [/quote]

Some of these are pretty good ideas.  [b]The issue is that land use/zoning is controlled as such local levels in the US, and housing is a regional issue (and somewhat national, as discussed above).  You have a prisoners dilemma problem when trying to coordinate across jurisdictions.[/b] [/quote]

Researcher here. The bolded is exactly right. [/quote]

It drives me crazy when people blame the federal govt or when candidates pretend they can do something. These are local issues. Zoning is a major factor. Look at DC. [/quote]

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