"a barrier free pedestrian system" - you mean like the one slated for Wan Chai by the Hopewell Group where all the sidewalks are above ground and people have to go up and down stairs just to cross the street, while cars dominate the ground level.
"a barrier free pedestrian system" - you mean like the one slated for Wan Chai by the Hopewell Group where all the sidewalks are above ground and people have to go up and down stairs just to cross the street, while cars dominate the ground level.
Rightly or wrongly the HK gov't chose to provide subsidized housing likely as many of these same people were not ever going to be able to afford to rent in the open market as their job prospects were so low.
Not sure what planet you are living on but in the "land of the free" gentrification has taken place all over the USA like Manhattan and the problem people just pushed elsewhere. Where it hasn't occurred in many cities the middle class fled to the suburbs to avoid crime and get better schools. Detroit is practically giving away housing to its police if they will agree to move their families back to the city and start an overall improvement process.
Contrary to HKFOOTinMouth the USA has not accomplished what he says they have. The number of cities that require low income housing is so miniscule it is likely not a stat kept.
There are states facing repeal campaigns of laws on affordable housing such as in Mass. where the folks concluded that this policy that FootinMouth is advocating is an "Abysmal failure" as it was used by rich developers to get concessions that they profited from.
The people protesting this are the ones needing affordable housing:
http://www.affordablehousingnow.org/
"Chapter 40B had 40 years to create affordable housing in Massachusetts, and instead it has actually made Massachusetts a more expensive place to live. "
And on and on.
You can see public housing on the way to Stanley, Wah Fu (near Pok Fu Lam) and in some of the choicest spots for views in HK bettered only by some of the HK prisons! In North America only the rich would inhabit the high ground.
The US has a huge housing problem for the poor and not many of the so-called mixed developments have actually worked for rich or poor.
You need to put down your weapons and learn more about the USA:
Affordable Housing Statistics -- Habitat for Humanity Int'l
AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS GETTING HARDER TO FIND
For every 100 very low-income renters, only 76 affordable rental units are currently available. Between 1997 and 2001, the number of available units declined 13 percent; there were 1.8 million fewer units that very low-income renters could afford.
To afford the fair-market price of the average U.S. two-bedroom rental unit, renters working full-time need to earn at least $15.28 per hour. That's almost three times the current federal minimum wage, and 37 percent more than renters needed to earn in 1999.
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HKF, so when they build gated communities they have to have some areas for low income families?
Gated community - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Poor, disadvantaged, isolated, exploited people living in Government housing?
Has any of the posters every walked through a government housing block car park?
I think not ( in regard of both sentences ).
Oh please, Habitat for Humanity is all bullshit, I have seen and known of more than a few applicants who applied for housing. They work under the table for cash, collect food stamps, then claim poverty in order to feed off the government's tit and elicit sympathy from these NGO's.
Some of these people are skilled but do not want to earn over the set amount in order to qualify for cheaper housing.
Those stats are all wrong if you consider the federal minimum wage is 7.25 * 40 * 52, the minimum annual salary is roughly 15K USD. Some states have a higher minimum wage law than the feds, CA is $9something if I remember correctly.
Most cities and counties in California have initiatives on the books that call for a % of new housing developments to be sold to low income households.
City of Pleasanton - Affordable Housing
Affordable Housing Projects - City of Oakland
Housing Authority of the County of Contra Costa
I live here, I see and read most things that happen here. You dont know jack shit about the USA to make any kind logical conclusion about States, all you know is what you can gather online.
Last edited by East_coast; 31-08-2011 at 07:07 PM.