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From: wrob
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00

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"Eric S. Sande" wrote:

> >The fact is that Levittowns, like garbage dumps, are easy to build
> >anyplace where the residents are powerless to object.
>
> As I recall Levittown was a response to postwar housing needs and
> was a stepping stone to the middle class for veterans, see
>
>       http://www.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown/index.html

As are intended the new middle class privately owned housing projects.
Think of them as Section 8 for white collar workers.

> I hardly think that's comparable to an inner city raze and rebuild,
> YMMV.  Yes I'm being priced out of my neighborhood but I can move
> two blocks East and still not sweat my bikes being stolen.

They represent a policy on the part of the Federal Gov't that housing
for the middle class, not the poor, is the only sector that the market
is unable to provide in the city. Never mind that the idea is to sell
or lease the razed projects to a private developer, thus creating
"positive impacts" on an inner city community that are no different from

the impacts you would get if St. Elizabeth's or Howard University
suddenly went bust and became valuable open urban land.

When they build a similar "mixed income" development on
McMillan underground reservoir, nobody will care. But when they
do it in Anacostia, they're uplifting the poor! Bah.

-BER

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From: wrob <wrob@erols.com>
Subject: Re: ENDGRIDLOCK.ORG
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