April 20, 2010

Harvard Segregates Housing

Destroying low income projects is the best idea. Jane Jacobs (Death and Life of Great American Cities) recognized that isolating people of low income eliminates hope of ever improving one's status. Young people grow up without hope or dreams. This is government segregation policy, which is shared to some extent by Harvard Real Estate policies. Harvard segregates the university population excluding non affiliated persons from living with students, staff and faculty. The few remaining unaffiliated residents on Harvard property are in place by Harvard's promise not to displace them when rent control was repealed in 1995. Harvard promotes diversity of skin color and ethnicity among their academic population. Harvard opposes diversity of economics and class in housing.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/4/20/sampson-mixedincome-study-community/

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