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And, contrary to suburbanite propaganda, communities like this Haitian one often are the ones funding the wealthy suburbs where all the city councilors live, not the other way around.
Interesting link, thank you for sharing!
The very poor and very rich pay very little tax relative to their income. By lifting people up to a decent income, making them taxpayers, it would seem help everyone. I don't get the incentive to keep anyone poor.
Plus I'd rather have a cool Haitian neighbor than some snooty person. Haiti seems to get especially screwed over by both people and nature, so those guys deserve a break.
The very poor are held up as a threat to get people to work in ahit conditions for bad pay. The economy requires a certain level of unemployment in order to function. Too high and the wheels don't turn. Too low and employers lose leverage, then people might start to unionize.
I was curious about how this approach differed from gentrification and thought I'd leave what I had learnt for other curious people.
It seems the main difference is in displacing the existing residents. The improvements suggested by the article are small things that help the community. Gentrification would be the other way around where shiny new homes are built to attract wealthier residents and then the area is improved afterwards to accommodate them, pricing out the existing population.
It's a small change in the approach to improving an area but it makes a big difference.
I lived in Lafayette. Had to nope out of that article, too many bad memories. Thanks for sharing though.