This Liberal Says The Majority
Doesn't Have Any Rights.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Tuesday, November 21, 1995, Page 12B
A REGIONAL PLAN FOR LOW-INCOME HOUSING
Section: EDITORIAL
The Missouri Housing Development Commission is encountering seemingly growingopposition to its efforts to finance low-income and moderate-income housingin parts of St. Louis County.
To try to head off such objections in the future, the agency says it willbegin notifying elected officials in communities where it is consideringapplications to finance such housing. In addition, the commission says itwill hold meetings to get input from residents before agreeing to financehousing proposed for their communities.
In many ways, this is a wise policy even though elected officials and residentsshouldn't have veto power over where needy people can live. At the sametime, the public and political opposition in some instances is understandable.
In one recent case, for example, the panel was asked to help finance a NorthCounty apartment complex in which a few units would be set aside for needyand working families. Opponents of the complex produced indisputable numbersshowing that North County already was absorbing a disproportionate shareof this housing.
In other instances, the opposition has taken on class and racial overtones.That's why housing advocates and public officials need to initiate educationalcampaigns to combat misguided opposition to housing for the needy.
[ NOTE: Misguided? What's Misguided About Wanting A Safe Community?
Do You Think The Guy Who Wrote This Lives With African Americans? ]A good place to start is with the point that the Housing DevelopmentCommission isn't in the business of creating ghettos. It tends to help financemultifamily apartment buildings in which a small percentage of the unitsis set aside for low-income renters. The rest are rented at market rate,meaning most of the tenants fall into the middle-income range.
In addition, public officials and housing advocates should begin discussingthe low-income housing issue in a regional context. Cities and countiesin other states have tried to spread housing for the needy as evenly aspossible throughout their metropolitan areas.
This policy prevents any single municipality from being overburdened withlow-income housing and potential neighborhood deterioration. The absenceof a similar policy here explains why much of the housing for the needyis confined to north St. Louis and North County.
INTEGRATION HASN'T WORKED.
THIRTY YEARS OF CRIME. GET IT?
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I got this thing from the Internet somewhere.
I love white anger. Someday, they are going to get us, though. I'm convincedof it.
They aren't as stupid as we think they are.