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[-] netwren@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Look. Clearly I need some education in this area. Why didn't the "projects" in the 80's and 90's effectively provide these benefits?

[-] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Because they were inadequately funded, regulated to low income areas with no jobs and shit schools. They we're just a glorified hole to stick brown ppl

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I saw a video that they intentionally made the projects bad to try to "incentivize" people to get out of them. The whole stupid pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

It also centralizes the problem, which intensifies it. What you need is communities of mixed income, which has effects on schools, hospitals, stores nearby, etc.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

This is less about the government building things and more about the government changing zoning so denser communities are built.

[-] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago
[-] netwren@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think others provided the type of context I was looking for but when I think dense living I think of the dense high rise projects that were built to provide low cost, section8 housing that theoretically were supposed to provide benefits to poor folks that I assume would also include the benefits discussed in your meme. However they were notoriously dangerous and had a myriad of problems that made them far worse and extremely dangerous for residents.

[-] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

I'm a big fan of trying more than one thing at once, so even though I think it's possible to learn lessons from effective public housing projects in Europe, I also think that we can achieve a lot through the private market. In CA, there are a lot of zoning barriers to building this kind of stuff. Even without government assistance, we can get some of this just by removing prohibitions on building this in a lot of areas.

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