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The increased number of tents at the Victoria Street encampment are a ‘growing concern’: Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic (archive.ph)
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[–] frostbiker 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn't say guettos are worse than what we have now. I said that surely we know how to build social housing without creating guettos in the first place, which is the typical NIMBY knee jerk reaction to their construction.

[–] jerkface 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We've known that segregating classes of people is harmful to everyone for decades. We still do it, because of psychological reasons like irrational hatred of the poor. None of this is because of lack of knowledge or resources. Things are exactly the way that makes the most money for entrenched capital, and that's no accident.