Urban Renewal

It is eye opening to be informed of such material that is evident in everyday life, yet most of us never stop and think why it exists or how it came to be. Personally, I never understood why projects are developed and why they are located in those certain areas. Most of the time they are randomly placed in small sections near colleges, urban cities, or middle to high-class areas. They are there to provide housing for African Americans while containing them in a certain area, controlling their income and housing expansion. It is very interesting to learn about the repelling dynamic of high and low income citizens and how government involvement takes a biased side towards the high-income citizens with no consideration of the consequences following the ignorance of equal rights for all. After reading about both sides of the situation, I felt as though there is no solution real solution to the problem at this time. Only as communities evolve over the years, leveling out different their races, cultural backgrounds, and income levels, will individuals be ok with living in the same environment. Otherwise, there are two many complications such as ways of living, cultural habits, and preferences that interfere with a low and high income or interracial collaborated neighborhood. I state this while indirectly referring to several examples of conflicted countries such as Israel and Palestine, and Albania and Serbia, when dealing with Kosovo. As the article stated, even though the housing at Hill District was old and distressed, it created a very comforting and familiar community to its inhabitants. For them, their life, their families, it did not matter to have crisp new buildings, filled with merchants, banks and retailers. It mattered that their community surrounded them, their way of being. Yes, maybe they would prefer nicer housing, but the government never really asked them what they wanted. It was never taken in consideration what a comforting community and a happy group of citizens really could reward the city with. A stable future, a growing community towards better, a low crime and drug rate and a better atmosphere overall.