the ad in a Huntsville newspaper
Two U.S. cities are engaged in a knock-down-drag-out fight over public housing in their communities: Galveston, Texas and Huntsville, Alabama.
In Galveston, Hurricane Ike demolished 569 units of public housing just a year ago. Now residents of Galveston don't want that public housing rebuilt.
And in Huntsville, the local housing authority is planning to buy some foreclosed homes and turn them into public housing. But not if the upper middle-class residents of South Huntsville have anything to say about it.
They even took out an ad in the local paper, stating "Public housing is coming to your neighborhood," trying to get people to come out to a local meeting, where either side engaged in a heated debate over whether public housing should be allowed there.
It's not just Galveston and Huntsville - it's everywhere.
People
have a visceral reaction to the words "public housing" and it's usually
not good. These reactions often appear in the comments sections of
articles like this or on this blog, at community meetings and in other
public forums.
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