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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-hous13.html
Basically, study finds that section 8 vouchers are very concentrated in certain neighborhoods. No surprise, right? I mean, I'd read this already, just not as the result of a study. And empirical evidence should have suggested this already to any observer.
However, I was always willing to rack this up to ghetto people not wanting to leave the ghetto, for example when public housing is torn down and the residents are given vouchers. The article acknowledges that this is at least a partial cause, but also notes that there are entire communities where nobody will accept a voucher. Entire liberal, lakefront liberal, lakefront democratic liberal, communities where nobody will accept a section 8 voucher.
I'll just note that I think about 75% of this country's race/poverty/crime problems would disappear over 20 or 30 years if every community shouldered its share of this burden (housing), instead of concentrating it in just a few neighborhoods. I mean, if we are going to pay for the housing at all, why not try to ensure that the resultant burdens are spread among communities?
Anyway, I was impressed with the lady in the last two paragraphs.
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There needs to be more aggressive enforcement by the Illinois Human Rights Commission, the body that is charged with enforcing the state's civil rights statute.
Of course, Hello, you really don't know very much about Chicago if you think that the North Shore is either liberal or Democrat. If you're talking about the city's lakefront neighborhoods, then there is not much housing that would be affordable to voucher tenants. Hell, there isn't much housing on the lakefron that would be affordable to young lawyers making less than BIGLAW salaries.
