Just... Wow. People have died - been massacred - fighting against ghettoisation. And for these people it's about the "ambience". Can't they see that safety and gentrification are two sides of the same coin?
But what other than the people makes the area unsafe? The only way the area can become safe is if different people live in it. So it would seem their stated aims differ from their real ones...
A strong housing authority would be socialism. Converting urban housing from rental units to affordable condos is un-American.
I'm partly joking, of course, but you'd be surprised at the epithets and viciousness that can be thrown around if someone dares disturb the very, very classist segments of the population who participate mostly loudly in municipal governments.
