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Originally posted by Fugee
So you'd have advocated forcibly moving black families to white neighborhoods and vice versa? That's a little more extreme than bussing. Would you have given government grants to allow poorer black families to buy or rent houses in white neighborhoods? What percent of people would you require to move and how would you have chosen them?
You are either incredibly naive or intentionally provocative.
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Carrot and stick. This is a repeat of something from a few months ago, but basically its something we should still do. If 1 of 100 homes in America are section 8, than make sure they are spread out all over. Make the homes available for "bidding" among eligible recipients, but do not give anyone a choice to live within a block of another section 8 recipient (except in the case of very large apartment complexes where you could have 1 per 100 homes as section 8).
Than tell landlords and communities that they don't have a right to refuse a market-rate offer on this basis (or race, religion....).
And, if a community doesn't have any apartment homes, tell the community that the Federal government will come in and build a few cinderblock bunkers amidst the mansions and distribute free government cheese on the front lawn every other Sunday.
I don't know if 1 per 100 reflects the actual number in America. But basically, don't allow the recipients or landlords to concentrate this, and don't allow landlords or communities to keep it out.
Voila, you have poor people in every school district.
This topic came up after a recent article in the Chicago Suntimes where they reported on a study of section 8 and concentrated poverty. Its heavily, heavily concentrated in only a few neighborhoods, and building a system to do this is building a system to fail. You solve it, you solve a whole lot of other social ills at the same time.
And i like that naive and provocative part. You sit here and watch 50 liberals say "nope, no problem here" and think I'm the one being naive? You fucking people are unbelievable. Keep it up. There will be 60 R Senators in 2008 unless you people change.
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