Yesterday in class we mentioned the fact that the White outsider population considered the Asian American population to be the "model community". When we discussed why this was, some came to the conclusion that it was because whites believed that Asian Americans kept to themselves. They provided for their own kind and didn't ask for government aid. Essentially they lived in their own bubble community. I believe that once that bubble began to expand and impose on other races, conflicts began to erupt.
In the reading the single biggest pitfall in the housing programs was the admissions policy of the Harlem River houses. Only the working poor were able to move into public housing, leaving the very poor and needy homeless. In my opinion public housing should be a refuge for those who really need it. However, the neighbors and the tenants wanted the power to be able to choose the residents of the area. Although the rating system of "mathematical impartialit
