A Republican who understands the importance of cities...

[Susita 175]

A smaller scale example- Jersey City from the 1970s vs Jersey City today. They gentrified the waterfront, tore down public housing projects and put up corporate and market-rate condo towers. Where did the poor minorities go? They spread across the region. The new model is to build developments all over the state and mandate that a small % of them be "affordable" (i.e. for lower-income residents of NJ). This spreads the poverty around and gives families the ability to raise their children in nicer towns where they might actually have a chance. And by avoiding the concentration of poverty in one area (or one apartment building), there is less crime. The model works, as has been proven on a smaller scale in places like Jersey City, New Brunswick and Perth Amboy.

Now they're trying this in Camden and are going to try this in Newark... let's see how it pans out. The sheer numbers of people in those cities may pose a problem. Time will tell.

this is what they're trying here on the island too AJ. Hopefully it works because it sounds like a great idea.