Say What??!!?? Will Deer Creek Become the Next East St. Louis?
“Many low-density suburbs and McMansion subdivisions, including some that are lovely and affluent today, may become what inner cities became in the 1960s and ’70s – slums characterized by poverty, crime and decay.”
- Christopher Leinberger, an urban land use expert.
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As downtown and Bricktown take shape, they push the homeless and slums out to make room for development. These people will keep being moved out of the traditional “slum” areas and have to find another area. So yes it is a possibility.
What is needed in all large population centers is federal housing projects. I’m not saying a free ride or anything like that. What I am saying is to put government funding to work building affordable housing alternatives for the low income and struggling families.
Some areas of the far NW side are already headed in that direction.