http://nospeedbumps.com/?p=1240 Expanding Freedom in the 21st Century Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:56:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://nospeedbumps.com/?p=1240#comment-232584 nospeedbumps.com » Blog Archive » A Cop with an Uzi on Every Corner Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:11:45 +0000 http://nospeedbumps.com/?p=1240#comment-232584 [...] Crime in some places in the US is so bad - so much worse than average places - that drastic steps are needed. Read this story in the New York Times today and try to imagine living in this housing project. Sure, if you asked me, housing projects should not exist in the first place. They just breed problems. But the reality is that they do exist - and the out of control crime in many on them should not be tolerated by our society. The same is true for all areas with out of control crime rates. [...] [...] Crime in some places in the US is so bad - so much worse than average places - that drastic steps are needed. Read this story in the New York Times today and try to imagine living in this housing project. Sure, if you asked me, housing projects should not exist in the first place. They just breed problems. But the reality is that they do exist - and the out of control crime in many on them should not be tolerated by our society. The same is true for all areas with out of control crime rates. [...]

]]> http://nospeedbumps.com/?p=1240#comment-195445 Angela Browne Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:28:33 +0000 http://nospeedbumps.com/?p=1240#comment-195445 I think by subsidizing housing, it greatly discourages work. In Canada here, we have housing activists crying for more and more subsidized apartments to be built, because of the long wait lists ... one of the key reasons for the long wait lists is because there is very little turnover in existing projects. People don't move from subsidized housing because there is little to no incentive to take a job, unless the job is a high paying one. Therefore, those on the wait lists have to wait for present occupants to: die, get married to a rich spouse or win a lottery. By building a whole lot more of this type of housing is like widening highways - we'll only be adding to the congestion in this arena where it already exists. I think by subsidizing housing, it greatly discourages work. In Canada here, we have housing activists crying for more and more subsidized apartments to be built, because of the long wait lists … one of the key reasons for the long wait lists is because there is very little turnover in existing projects. People don’t move from subsidized housing because there is little to no incentive to take a job, unless the job is a high paying one. Therefore, those on the wait lists have to wait for present occupants to: die, get married to a rich spouse or win a lottery. By building a whole lot more of this type of housing is like widening highways - we’ll only be adding to the congestion in this arena where it already exists.

]]> http://nospeedbumps.com/?p=1240#comment-185309 nospeedbumps.com » Blog Archive » Housing Vouchers for the Poor Have Their Own Problems Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:05:26 +0000 http://nospeedbumps.com/?p=1240#comment-185309 [...] In recent years there has been a movement in the US to rely more on giving housing vouchers to the poor rather than building new public housing projects. Perhaps if those nasty housing projects are counted on less for housing the poor, and we just write them checks to pay their rent instead, then we will finally be able to have a clear-cut winning program in the anti-poverty welfare system. [...] [...] In recent years there has been a movement in the US to rely more on giving housing vouchers to the poor rather than building new public housing projects. Perhaps if those nasty housing projects are counted on less for housing the poor, and we just write them checks to pay their rent instead, then we will finally be able to have a clear-cut winning program in the anti-poverty welfare system. [...]

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