Hacker News Reader

Mind you, if everyone lives in the cheap neighborhood then "problem people" are diluted to the point there isn't a neighborhood-wide problem meanwhile everyone gets to pay cheap rent.

View on HN

I'm dubious of this idea. Examples of locations where this dynamic exists?

Singapore is the only place I heave heard of where rich and poor live in the same public housing buildings.

Could have something to do with the extreme land scarcity. The super rich still live in private houses though.

Singapore also deals quite harshly with “problem people”.

How do you mean?

Caning spoiled ex-pat brats comes to mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Michael_Fay

They are quite famous for using capital punishment for drug trafficking offenses:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singap...

Usually by hanging.

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.”

That's the model Chicago converted to ("problem people" jab aside). It's fine. But the expensive areas are still expensive. It's hard to see schematically why rents would stay cheap in this model.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com