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Originally Posted by buzzg
This is just me genuinely not knowing – why does/would Manitoba Housing be developing subdivisions? Isn't their mandate to provide affordable housing for low-income people?
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Yes that is their mandate. They have locations everywhere, including new subdivisions. The idea behind this is that if there was only affordable housing in low income areas, then there would be less likelihood of the cycle of poverty breaking. It creates more of a ghetto when you congregate all low income people in one area.
Getting the chance to run into people of other social classes can be beneficial within a community, and if not for the adults, then maybe for the children in these families who might go to school and have lower chances of getting suckered into gangs and such that tends to be rife in lower income areas.