New Public Housing in Houston. What do you think?

[SewTexas]

I think I would like a granite counter-top

Once folks have moved in, you can probably go over there and get someone to sell you theirs. Just look for a guy who looks strung out 'cause he has no money for dope.

<sigh> too true

[VMI77]

Public housing should be in open barracks, just like it is for Marine recruits --with plenty of work provided for those who don't have jobs. They want their own place --earn it. Each barracks patrolled by armed guards who provide protection against criminal predators and enforce curfews and other regulations. No drug or alcohol allowed. Anyone caught with drugs or alcohol is prohibited from receiving further public assistance for life. Public assistance should be unpleasant so people have the incentive to get off it.

[RoyGBiv]

Benjamin Franklin said....

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor[5] (29 November 1766).

[Andrew]

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