First Suburbs Project of South Eastern PA
Tonight I attended a meeting at Victory that talked about the housing problems with HUD. The problem is really that we steer our poor into certain areas and thus don’t allow them to have the same opportunities as everyone else because they have a lot of factors against them by living in poor zip codes.
Some of those factors include not being able to attend good schools, or having undesirable influencing behaviors and people around them. By pushing the poor into dense populations of more poor individuals it makes the issue worse because a lot of the municipalities rely on taxes from incomes to keep things going like schools.
Another issue is that business drops and jobs leave since there is less money to be spent in that area. This makes the issue even worse.
The proposed solution is to disperse and spread out HUD housing in all areas of the region and not just isolated pockets. This will allow for better opportunities for those people. They will have better access to more jobs and as well have better access to quality education for their children. This will allow them to climb out of the situation they are in and get back on their feet.
There were guest speakers and presentations. The data shown was absolutely wow. It just opened my eyes up. There are areas right here in the Philadelphia region that are just getting more poor. They are continuing to struggle and get further behind. It’s a terrible cycle but hopefully changing some policies will help!
There are a lot of organizations that are members of this organization and it seems to have a lot of steam behind it. Hopefully there will be a lot of action. I’m a great proponent for change that makes anything better in our society. Usually I focus my efforts on things that are green. But I am even more interested in things that affect quality of life.
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