Essay - Public Issue Public Housing and Social Destruction Public Housing is...

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PUBLIC HOUSING AND SOCIAL DESTRUCTION

Public housing is a serious ***** as it affects a large section of our otherw*****e affluent cities. The low income families who are forced to live in these cramped blocks are regularly encounter*****g numerous social problems including drugs, street fights and gangs and seem to have absolutely no way out. It is distressing to know that while one ***** the country's most important issues is the lack of proper housing facilities for its poor, the problem is rarely ever made it to ***** political agenda. During the election campaign we notice ***** politicians talking about *****ything from education to economy to gun control etc but rarely does anyone ever mention the housing problems of the country. The issue is of such a huge magnitude that when we study ***** problem in depth; ***** would notice the sheer neglect of the agencies ***** th***** regard. ***** poor are suffering ***** not only sub standard living, they are also being subjected to *****y kind ***** evil ***** could possibly spring from living in places that should never be termed as homes. The country has failed to acknowledge the problem *****ly, which is do*****g tremendous damage to a ***** section of the society ***** unfortunately is living well be***** the poverty line. Winton Pitcoff (2000) comments on ***** extreme housing problem of the country, ***** has led to the creation of painfully, cramped public ***** blocks. "With all of the attention paid ***** the booming economy, ***** soaring stock market, and even the record-setting home ownership rate, the fact that America's housing cr*****is ***** continued -- worsened, ***** ***** has gotten little notice... Mean***** the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) -- the federal agency mandated to meet these people's needs - ***** suffered substantial budget cuts at the hands of Congress. Perhaps more *****ly, HUD has been left to find solutions without a coherent, long*****term housing policy ***** guide it."

Americ*****n ***** are trying to provide homes ***** those who cannot afford one on their own ***** the homes which they are provided are nowhere close to an ordinary home an average family would want to live in, instead ***** are given problem-infested blocks where even mere survival becomes difficult let al***** living.

New York is one city with enormous ***** housing problems. ***** was excluded from economic*****y favorable places in American ***** because of the poor neighborhoods ***** exist in this city. The ***** th***** is proud of ***** skyscrapers should be ashamed ***** the poor adm**********tration, which has resulted in the ***** of public housing neighborhood such as South Bronx where others ***** even scared to enter. The administration has d***** little or nothing to improve the situation f***** those who are force***** to live in ***** b*****s. It appears as if ***** government is comp*****ely unaware ***** the problems that *****se people have top face every day. The ***** in th***** ***** of the ***** are not only *****ing deprived