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Would building more affordable and low-income housing help reduce violence in inner city neighborhoods?

As we all know, the single biggest cause of crime is poverty and lack of education. This is why inner city black neighborhoods are often plagued by crime and drugs. So I'm thinking if we build more low-income housing and increase education funding(build more schools, get more teachers, etc) for poor families in inner-city neighborhoods, the black crime rate would go down significantly. I think more funding for welfare might help too, but increasing funding for job training and education would be even more important, to help get people off welfare. Do you think this approach would reduce crime?

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1. No it wouldn't. They would destroy that housing also within years. They are what they are and giving them new housing won't change a thing. Reducing crime in the ghetto is going to come down to proper parenting and personal responsibility. Edit: Also that stop snitching BS they have has to go.
2. That is fine if you and a bunch of volunteers do that, but you don't have the right to tax other people to do it.
3. have you ever been to an inner city school? They are destroyed at the hands of the people they are supposed to help. Throwing more money at them will not solve the problem. Offering more affordable housing to people who live beyond their means is what caused this financial mess in the first place.
4. Availability of housing and schools isn't the problem. It's the culture of inner-city people that doesn't value education in life that's the problem.
5. Education does no good if the jobs are in China or India. Conservative supply-side economics ironically led our nation off an economic cliff. We are a nation of consumers rather than producers. This is unsustainable.
6. Yeah, look at all the good it has done this far.
7. It all comes down to personal responsibility.. You cannot make someone do the right thing..You cannot force someone to learn.. Parents play a big role in a child's life yet many don't care and use the i'm poor BS.... You have to want to succeed and have better.. You also have to work hard for it and lets be honest drugs and violence earn a dollar a lot faster.. Many people are poor, but they do not resort to destroying the home, school, neighborhood they live in.. You want a better life you work for it.. End of story..
8. This has been tried. It didn't work. The last thing cities need is more projects.
9. No-it's been tried before and the housing is run down by the very people it was built to help. In our city there was a volunteer shot while working on this type of project because they "didn't want whitey's help". We all know the saying...teach a man to fish right? Same thing, maybe if they actually worked or at least helped build these houses they would take better care of them, then again maybe not.