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(129,061 posts)They just "move them" somewhere else so they are not "seen".
One of the issues of dealing with jobs was that when they built all the office parks out in the suburbs and moved the jobs from the cities to them, they then declared - "Okay, come out here to work". Yet they provided no public transit to get there. And naturally, many could not afford a car, let alone the gas or insurance for one (where the car insurance here in Philly is obscene, although if you live just across the city line, it drops by about 1/3rd). Now that the office park luster has worn off and the cities are starting to get revamped, those businesses are slowly migrating back again, but the gentrification is driving the lower-wage population away to the now "cheaper" 'burbs and older small towns with cheaper housing. And so it's a perpetual cycle.
Instead of Toll Brothers building tens of thousands of "McMansions", they should have been building "affordable" housing. Philadelphia's famous "row homes" were just that (affordable, working class) back in the '30s and '40s when large-scale home-building projects wre underway to meet the market demand. These communities surrounded places like Taskykake (Nicetown & Pulaskitown) and Bond Bread (Lawncrest) and Schmidt's Brewery (Brewerytown) -all Philadelphia neighborhoods. Similar happened in Camden surrounding Campbell's Soup and RCA. But now the new version of that style house is called a "town home" and the price is literally 10 times what the same used to sell for 30 years ago.