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City-dwellers for many neighborhoods complain that public housing residents moving into their community cause an increase in crime. But if they don't want low-income residents moving in next door, where are they supposed to go?
NIMBY: if not your backyard, then whose?
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The CHA might do more to help public housing residents transition in to private housing. Existing classes help public housing residents understand many of those subtle difference which many of us who live in market housing take for granted. For example, the different materials & approaches required to clean a tile floor compared to a carpeted one. Subtle variations in vocal tonality replace volume as a means of making one's point. Out-sized physical stature is no longer necessary to earn respect & resist the slights of daily life. Early to bed, early to rise. It's all part of a lifestyle which, once adopted, helps public housing residents ingratiate themselves with their neighbors.
My experience with Southeast Side Chicago subsidized Section 8 multi-family housing, Bridgeport senior housing & upscale condominium management have acquainted me with these fundamental differences.
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