American Inner-City Housing Revolution

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This paper looks at the housing situation of America's inner-cities within the context of America's social, economic and cultural history. The paper shows that the vast majority of inner-city inhabitants are non-white due to the segregation and racist history of America. It looks at how the mass-media portrays these inhabitants as unproductive members of society. The paper examines the problem within the context of America's largely capitalistic economy, as well as the issues of homelessness, lack of affordable rental accommodation for the poorer social classes and government aid. It looks at various solutions and shows that ultimately, the only thing standing in the way of solving the problem, is lack of political will.

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"In modern America the prime value is capitalism. Its selfish attitudes dominate mass media, government, and education. It's alleged glories and wonders are endlessly trumpeted, but open discussion of its far more numerous evils are effectively suppressed, at least by the mass-circulation media who are the only source by which large numbers of people might actually be induced to question its system of exploitation, and its failure to meet the needs of the vast majority of human beings in the world. From the capitalist perspective, the predominantly minority residents of inner cities, with their relative lack of education, job skills, literacy, money, and transport, as well as their higher frequency of psychological problems, potential for violence, substance abuse, broken homes, and gang membership, are worthless, unproductive people. Since according to capitalist ideology the profits of the fortunate few are always more important than the basic human needs of the unfortunate many, nothing fundamental will ever be done under its power to alleviate the interlocking causes of poverty, homelessness, and crime that endlessly perpetuate the nation's underclass, except to incarcerate the unruly inner-city urban poor youth, so they will not revolt and demand their piece of the pie."

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