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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How about the opposite?  Dilute the FARMS families to the burbs, where there's more likely to be a critical mass of middle-class that could absorb it?  Rents are a lot cheaper  outside of the city, and it's not as though there has ever been any real opportunity for life change for folks in multigenerational poverty as long as they stay in the city.[/quote]

Ah yes, ship the poor folks out to the burbs and make them commute into the city for their jobs.  [/quote]

If they had worthwhile jobs in the city, they wouldn't be FARMS in the first place.

And consider that thousands of people commute into the city because they can't afford to live in the city.  Lower cost of living outside the city can more than offset the cost of commuting.[/quote]

Not when you're talking about jobs that pay 9 bucks an hour.[/quote]

A job paying $9 an hour sure wouldn't keep me rooted in DC.  There are plenty of places in MD and VA with decent paying jobs and a significantly lower cost of living.[/quote]

Like you mentioned, many areas with FARMS in DC are multigenerational.  You see plenty of whining on DCUM about being close to family, it's the same for poor people as well.  [/quote]

No, actually a large percentage of non-FARMS families didn't even come from DC originally - so it's not them whining about constantly having to be close to family.  They only hang with their families on long weekends or on work leave and most of them are perfectly fine with that arrangement.  Plus, I question the value of being close to family when it's that family who put you in the situation of multigenerational poverty in the first place, and who is not helping you out of it.  And even so, if you move across the border out of DC, it's not as though you need to apply for a visa to come back in, just get on the damn metro, bus, train, whatever.  [/quote]

Do you even know one low income person?  How can you give so much detail of how they spend their weekends or spend time with their families?  You are one but job that likes to make assumptions of how poor black families live their lives?  Or maybe you know one middle class black family and figure you are an expert.  Don't tell me, you're not a racist, you've had a black person at your dinner table.[/quote]

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