Decades of ‘small government’ philosophizing has led to social housing community-bashing by the US and its fellow travelling Canadian and UK governments, among others.
Suggesting that low and no income tenants are constitutionally incapable of forming healthy communities has greased the skids on existing social housing, even as it lionizes ‘mixed income’ housing in which middle and upper class social ‘responsibles’ teach handfuls of lower class social stumblebums how to behave.
Unfortunately those attitudes are soiling the reputation of social housing in a country much admired in the past for its social housing achievements: Denmark.
Facing government attempts to dismantle social housing communities, activists have picked up the government’s stick to beat back against suggestions that some social housing have become supposedly undesirable ‘ghettos.’
Define a ghetto however you like, seems to be the activist message. But don’t dare challenge or seek to dismantle such close-knit, caring, social housing communities.
Read more in Reporting Democracy: GHETTO-BLASTERS: THE DANISH
