http://angrybrownbutch.com/2007/07/30/nyc-public-housing-a-shambles-in-need-of-fixing/ politics, media, culture and life from a queer boricua in brooklyn Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:10:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://angrybrownbutch.com/2007/07/30/nyc-public-housing-a-shambles-in-need-of-fixing/#comment-53980 Page3000 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:44:30 +0000 http://www.angrybrownbutch.com/2007/07/30/169#comment-53980 LOL :) Hi MOTT! LOL Hi MOTT!

]]> http://angrybrownbutch.com/2007/07/30/nyc-public-housing-a-shambles-in-need-of-fixing/#comment-52902 MottHavenDude Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:40:54 +0000 http://www.angrybrownbutch.com/2007/07/30/169#comment-52902 There is nothing inherently wrong with housing projects, it was the management of them that turned them into the disaster they are today. If they would have remained the affordable housing resource that they were intended to be, instead of the dumping ground for the poor/destitute and the city's problems, they would be a resounding success. Until the city repositions the housing projects back to affordable housing, and not just a homeless shelter in disguise, nothing will change. The reality is that the housing projects have not been an "affordable housing resource" in NYC for the past 40 years. There is nothing inherently wrong with housing projects, it was the management of them that turned them into the disaster they are today. If they would have remained the affordable housing resource that they were intended to be, instead of the dumping ground for the poor/destitute and the city’s problems, they would be a resounding success. Until the city repositions the housing projects back to affordable housing, and not just a homeless shelter in disguise, nothing will change. The reality is that the housing projects have not been an “affordable housing resource” in NYC for the past 40 years.

]]> http://angrybrownbutch.com/2007/07/30/nyc-public-housing-a-shambles-in-need-of-fixing/#comment-52736 Jack Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:59:25 +0000 http://www.angrybrownbutch.com/2007/07/30/169#comment-52736 Hey Shev, I wouldn't call that a stupid question; it's the situation that's stupid. And I don't really have an answer to the question, other than to say that in this capitalist society, profit-making is a lot more popular than "charity" or social welfare. Hey Shev, I wouldn’t call that a stupid question; it’s the situation that’s stupid. And I don’t really have an answer to the question, other than to say that in this capitalist society, profit-making is a lot more popular than “charity” or social welfare.

]]> http://angrybrownbutch.com/2007/07/30/nyc-public-housing-a-shambles-in-need-of-fixing/#comment-52735 Shev Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:56:38 +0000 http://www.angrybrownbutch.com/2007/07/30/169#comment-52735 This may be (is) a kind of stupid question, but what's the rationale behind the discrepancy in support for private and public landlords? Surely not just out of principle that, y'know, profit-making is good and should be rewarded with extra money, and being poor is bad and should therefore be discouraged by, um, witholding money? This may be (is) a kind of stupid question, but what’s the rationale behind the discrepancy in support for private and public landlords? Surely not just out of principle that, y’know, profit-making is good and should be rewarded with extra money, and being poor is bad and should therefore be discouraged by, um, witholding money?

]]> http://angrybrownbutch.com/2007/07/30/nyc-public-housing-a-shambles-in-need-of-fixing/#comment-32206 New Orleans public housing residents and advocates take over the Housing Authority at AngryBrownButch Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:28:22 +0000 http://www.angrybrownbutch.com/2007/07/30/169#comment-32206 [...] only part of a greater, nationwide trend of reduction of public housing, further evidence of which I wrote about in July when NYC advocates demanded attention for the ailing public housing system in this city. But the [...] [...] only part of a greater, nationwide trend of reduction of public housing, further evidence of which I wrote about in July when NYC advocates demanded attention for the ailing public housing system in this city. But the [...]

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