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This one should have happened a long time ago, a lot of the resistance to state housing being built stems from the antisocial behaviour from a minority of tenants. Living next to social housing shouldn't be something to dread.

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[–] liv 2 points 8 months ago

I agree. We saw this same thing coming with the terrible idea to start shoving homeless people into cheap motel rooms, essentially creating SRO (single room occupancy) units.

Research from the US and elsewhere has found that SROs create a fish in a barrel situation that attracts drug dealers and all the criminal infrastructure associated with it.