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One thing I don't understand about these housing projects is why they're built in cities. It is common knowledge that The Projects are hotbeds of crime and antisocial behavior, so why not build them on islands or in the mountains?
If you demolish high-density Projects and put the people from these Projects into housing in low-density areas, you're going to turn huge chunks of the city into gangland. Notably, two of the largest universities in the US - University of Florida and Ohio State University - have massive gang-controlled Projects just a handful of blocks from campus. The result is that the Projects-based gangs rob, burgle, and sell drugs to the college students. In one infamous case from OSU, the gangs were driving around in a van abducting college kids, selling the females into sex slavery and holding the males for ransom. Eventually a female abductee escaped and part of the operation got busted, but none of the male hostages were ever found.
The owners of these Projects get kickbacks for providing these street gangs with quality "turf". In OSU's case, the just-off-campus Projects are controlled by Crips and owned by an Armenian syndicate that has been investigated on at least two occasions by the DoJ. Meanwhile the city and county lose their tax base as employed people flee for the suburbs.
And what's left for the people who don't flee? It's a school night here as I write this. Someone in these Projects was blasting bass music until 2AM. Now it's 4AM on a school night and multiple guns firing led to police sirens and a police chopper overhead. Who can learn in this environment?
Please, please, please tear down these blighted areas and relocate their inhabitants to wilderness areas far away from the cities.