This one should have happened a long time ago, a lot of the resistance to state housing being built stems from the antisocial behaviour from a minority of tenants. Living next to social housing shouldn’t be something to dread.

  • @liv
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    3 months ago

    State housing has been a political football since the 1950s.

    I wish as a country we would just grow up, accept that we have it, and overhaul it to international best practice.

    That would involve pepper potting (instead of creating these crime ghettos because the national fetish for real estate means it’s somehow taboo that any of it be on “valuable” land).

    Climbing down from soap box, but it’s exasperating when ideology gets in the way of results.

    • @absGeekNZ
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      Agreed, we should be spending the communal load, rather than creating ghettos. Make it unprofitable for gangs to target are area.

      By concentrating the lower socioeconomic people into areas, it becomes a great place to target, not just for gangs, but payday loans, roving grocery trucks, look at the concentration of liquor stores in today areas Vs wealthy areas…

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        I agree. We saw this same thing coming with the terrible idea to start shoving homeless people into cheap motel rooms, essentially creating SRO (single room occupancy) units.

        Research from the US and elsewhere has found that SROs create a fish in a barrel situation that attracts drug dealers and all the criminal infrastructure associated with it.

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    No surprises there. More benny bashing. More attacking the powerless. More homelessness. More child poverty.

    It’s what we expected, it’s what we got and let’s be honest it’s what this country wants.