As we build and grow, in Merced, and elsewhere, we need to be smart, and we can put the poor people into safe custom apartments with all of the amenities, instead of putting people into boring dangerous trailer parks. Trailer parks are for lazy people with no imagination.
People can build custom small apartments which can be made affordable, and there can be swimming pools, and jacuzzis, and tennis courts, and clubhouses for parties, and there can be golf courses, and parks, and a grocery store with healthy food in every neighborhood, etc.
The community can come in and add community theatre, and opera, and dance, and movie theatres, and concert halls, etc.
In the old days they had public dances with live bands, communities can do that again, people can have parties at their apartment complexes and there can be dancing, etc. And people can dance by the pool like an Annette Funicello movie.
People need to plan wise as they build. And we can build fun stuff instead of ghettos and dangerous trailer parks. And just because a place is cheap does not mean that it has to be dirty and dangerous and ugly. We can build nice places that can still be cheap.
Here is a video from a mahi mahi taco party that we had here at my apartment complex...
https://youtu.be/x4K7dnixw5IPeople can have fun, and just because you are poor does not mean that you need to be unhappy and miserable and you should not have to live in a dangerous neighborhood.
We need to plan wise, and we can build fun stuff that people can enjoy.
Salute,
Tony V.