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Better than ''social housing'' quota for any new development.....not quite the same but the fundamentals remain......different socio-economic groups do not mix easily nor comfortably......human nature.
Mic
MicB said:Better than ''social housing'' quota for any new development.....not quite the same but the fundamentals remain......different socio-economic groups do not mix easily nor comfortably......human nature.
Mic
Unfortunately, those are the very sad facts. Integration is fine in theory, but there are far too many factors to be taken into account for that theory to be fully successful in practice. We all like to think that people will rise up to the standards of their best neighbours, but sadly the opposite tends to be true. The 'haves' feel that their comfortable position is being eroded; they feel less secure. Whilst the 'have-nots' fail to understand why their neighbours have more than them, so they give up; there's no need to bother because they've been provided with a reasonable home in a reasonable location. So everybody's unhappy.I think MicB does have a point here in as much as having looked round various new developments the houses next to the social housing always struggle to sell. Having spoken to the sales negotiator at the last development it appears many people are of the same opinion.
Sadly, walking round the development the yellow smilie face spay painted on the wheelie bin while the chap was outside drinking his can of larger whilst arguing on the phone did nothing to help.
They have an £810,000 plan to tackle 13000 complaints about anti-social behaviour every year.
I can see this whole thing coming to nothing very quickly.
The original plan for council housing was for a total mix, with "the labourer living next to the Doctor" but it was cheaper to build council housing on greenfield sites. We cannot know what would have been the result. Without doubt if socio economic groups form ghettos, council or the West End, the result is groups that fail to understand each other or accord the other groups the respect they deserve.
I love your Spartist posts pipmk. Your firm determination to ignore human nature makes me wonder what planet you inhabit.
Surely 35+ years of comprehensive education for the majority of the population tells us what the result would have been - "groups that (still) fail to understand each other or accord the other groups the respect they (may) deserve."
The crazy think is the airs and graces people take upon themselves when they take on a mortgage they don't realise that the average council tenant has far greater legal protection than they have, miss one payment and they can be out...bye bye on your bike. I did think though that the 1st big estates were built post WW1 as "homes for heroes" and the mixed housing aim belonged with Robert Owen and his New Mills project in Lanark but I could be wrong
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