How to create a diverse and 'mixed' community
When walking to work I pass by a housing development on Queen Street that is well on its way to completion (it's wood frame is already up to three storeys). I think I've heard that this building's apartments will be rented to NB Housing as subsidized units.
I've written before about my belief in mixed income housing, and that it is better not to isolate people who are in need of subsidized rents. Is possible to create "mixed income" communities even with all of the units contained in a buildings four walls being subsidized. I think it is possible.
Uptown Saint John is densely populated and communities extend further than any one building. With this in mind, one has to assume that ghettoization would not occur by building a subsidized only project on an Uptown/South End street.
In the case of the Queen Street building, many of the neighbouring buildings, and much of the rental housing stock on Queen Square caters to a diversity of tenants - some very high end, and some with lower rent units. This creates a mixed-income community and should mitigate any stigma or social woes associated with large isolated blocks of social housing.
I've written before about my belief in mixed income housing, and that it is better not to isolate people who are in need of subsidized rents. Is possible to create "mixed income" communities even with all of the units contained in a buildings four walls being subsidized. I think it is possible.
Uptown Saint John is densely populated and communities extend further than any one building. With this in mind, one has to assume that ghettoization would not occur by building a subsidized only project on an Uptown/South End street.
In the case of the Queen Street building, many of the neighbouring buildings, and much of the rental housing stock on Queen Square caters to a diversity of tenants - some very high end, and some with lower rent units. This creates a mixed-income community and should mitigate any stigma or social woes associated with large isolated blocks of social housing.
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