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>Society benefits greatly from mixed areas - race, class, etc.

Citation needed. Also If I buy a flat and I have to live with problematic people, how does that benefit me?

Forcing rich people to have exposure to poor people to not automatically equate "poor" with "problematic" is one benefit to society.

I'm not rich by any measure but I know the kind of people who receive social housing. Not saying they are all problematic but many of them are, and one bad neighbour is enough to make your life hell.

You don’t know the kind of people who receive social housing, and it shows.

I do, because I live surrounded by social housing blocks. And just last week they were lighting a campfire inside their building. After many years you can't imagine the things I've seen. Maybe it's you who doesn't know the kind of people who receive social housing.

You used the wrong sock puppet, vwdhx.

I agree with you, all the neighborhoods with social housing have thrash laying around, more crime (or general unsafe feeling) I know because I was living in the middle of it all in social housing. The problematic people live there their whole life, making their behavior the standard.

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