>>>>The problem is how they are managed . If you just dump problem families in them the you will have a problem. It only takes a few troublemakers to pull an area down so they should be aggressively managed You keep a few sink areas for those who cause problems and move them out and into those areas quickly.
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>>>>Spend a little money on a problem and you'll save yourself a lot in the long run.
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>>>This is the US, any such project will be done once, in a semiposterior way, just to prove that it was bad to start with, and that it can't work. Then it would be dragged as a constructive proof that such-and-such doesn't work.
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>>>There is a significant political will here to run such projects, and that will is negative. Thus it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy, i.e. it won't work because the viewer from Idaho asked for it.
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>>"Semiposterior" -- good one. I also like "anal-cranial inversion."
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>Two years of Latin wouldn't do much, had I not had all the Latin in English. Keeps one on their toes ;).

I just read this week that Latin is making a bit of a comeback in schools. Not bad for a dead language.