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In dc.biking Miguel Cruz <spam@admin.u.nu> wrote:
> Eternal Nay-sayer  <no@spam.for.me> wrote:
>> For a contrast, take a drive by a public housing project (sometime when the
>> mayor isn't scheduled for a photo op), and look at how well maintained the
>> property there is. Remember, this upkeep is a combination of the residents
>> and the periodic intervention of a public works crew... Do you really want
>> a unit or two of that transported into your neighborhood, where the
>> public works crews will visit far less frequently?

> The reason that the grounds of housing projects are often a mess is quite
> simple: No individual feels they have enough personal stake in the
> cleanliness to make it worth their trouble. 

So I should let them use my front yard as a dumping ground? After all, I (and
the other folks who happen to live in the area) am the only one who has any
stake in keeping it clean.

If they don't feel the have stake enough in where they're living now to keep
it clean, that sure as heck isn't an arguement to move 'em somewhere nicer.

> This is not limited to poor
> people. The companies owned by your rich neighbors cause pollution far more
> ugly and unpleasant than all the beer cans and McDonald's bags in all the
> world's housing projects combined, and they do it for precisely the same
> reason.

And I'd oppose my neighbors (most of whom seem to work for big companies,
rather than owning them) opening up a plant in my neighborhood, too.