Stop the Williams Lane Housing Project – Clayton Heights
Housing Projects Thing Of Past
Very misleading title. And the info inside try’s to make the H.A. that they are the saviors of the lower income housing.
http://swtimes.com/articles/2009/04/26/news/news042609_03.txt
They are trying to make it look like what they’ve done is sooooo much better than how it use to be. And in some ways it is a huge step forward for those who have never been able to live in their own, yet rented, house.
But here’s the kicker, in the article on SWTimes.com you will see that the houmes they have already built are not fully rented. That they even dropped their standards “everyone moved into alternative housing by early July, including about 20 stragglers who had credit problems or did not qualify for vouchers because of a criminal history.” That right there is another huge issue I have about building such a dense population into an ultra non dense area where the infrastructure can’t handle it. Not to mention the city doesn’t have the money to add a sewer pump station, fill in a swamp, move utitlites, make Morrison school bigger and handle the influx of crime and vandalism that follows a large, low income project like this.
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