SURE, HE'S ACTING LIKE A REPUBLICAN AGAIN...:

'Choice' neighborhoods to combat poverty cycle (Christina Bellantoni, May 12, 2009, Washington Times)

The Obama administration is proposing a new program that aims to transform the nation's poorest neighborhoods from head-to-toe: taking 10 urban centers with high concentrations of public housing and improving it while adding day care centers and even farmers markets, sidewalks and parks.

The $250 million proposal is a planning experiment and one of the most progressive proposals under consideration for the next budget year, building upon the Hope VI program, which over the past 17 years has torn down nearly 100,000 of the worst public housing projects in the country. [...]

Sen. Christopher S. "Kit" Bond, Missouri Republican, said he would advocate for the new program because it expands on the successful Hope VI initiative he has championed since its creation in 1992.

...but that seems a lot of effort to keep folks trapped in public housing. Why not just use the money to buy homes and give them to people? The prices are right.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 12, 2009 11:06 AM