What exactly about my post was wrong? Do tell.
Okay.
None of them live in government projects. There are income limits for access to government housing in Manhattan. It's minimum wage or less. Office maintenance workers are unionized and make more than $50k a year (I know because my mom is one), and hospital nurses make way more than minimum wage.
In fairness, you
might be right, only because I missed the part where you said "in Manhattan" until just this moment.
It's certainly not true of all government-sponsored housing, and also not true for Section 8 benefits.
Those who live in government housing are mostly on welfare and have almost zero incentive to find better paying jobs. Why? Because they would have to make considerably more to make enough to pay for rent in the same neighborhood, as well as other living expenses. It's a broken system, and all it does is increases demand for property on the island. Move the government projects to way outside the city, convert the land to standard residential property, and watch the neighborhoods improve and rent all throughout the city drop as a result.
This is just ludicrous. And likely at least a bit racist.
Also, NYC's government once attempted to move city project residents to the outer boroughs. Many of those moved into the projects I grew up hanging out in. It degraded the neighborhood, which to that point was a solid working-class (very intermixed racially) neighborhood.
You can't just say "move out the poor to make room for the rich" and not receive any backlash. I know, that's the Republican way, but it doesn't make it okay.
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