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Re:Tokyo's suburban housing became vast ghettoes for the old by gwbas1c on Thursday June 20, 2019 @05:50PM (#20237746)
And in the US, a lot of upper-middle-class HATE mixed income dwellings.

At least in dense cities, public housing can be mixed into free market housing.

Re:Tokyo's suburban housing became vast ghettoes for the old by pas on Thursday June 20, 2019 @05:57PM (#20237797)
They hate it because it became a one stop shop solution for everything. (Especially the mental illness problems are troubling without any of the very much needed therapy, continuous follow ups, visits from a social worker, etc.)
Re:Tokyo's suburban housing became vast ghettoes for the old by zem on Thursday June 20, 2019 @07:14PM (#20238379)
that would be a bit more believable were it not for the people who make sure that the "poor apartments" in a building have a separate entrance.
Re:Tokyo's suburban housing became vast ghettoes for the old by greglindahl on Thursday June 20, 2019 @07:41PM (#20238566)
While that makes a great headline, how common is it?
Re:Tokyo's suburban housing became vast ghettoes for the old by zem on Thursday June 20, 2019 @07:52PM (#20238639)
enough to have its own wikipedia entry, at the least! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_door
Re:Tokyo's suburban housing became vast ghettoes for the old by robocat on Friday June 21, 2019 @06:26PM (#20246775)
Which seems to imply that while a poor door is not very common, it is becoming more common in response to affordable-housing regulations (requiring a % of market-rate developments to be affordable).