Amsterdam to create "scum villages".

[Jim F]

I'm wondering if this would work for some public housing/section 8 tenants in Maryland? :

" Social housing problem families or tenants who do not show an improvement or refuse to go to the special units face eviction and homelessness.

" Holland's capital already has a special hit squad of municipal officials to identify the worst offenders for a compulsory six month course in how to behave.'
etc...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-villages.html

Maybe not. Just a thought...

[prepfan]

I'm wondering if this would work for some public housing/section 8 tenants in Maryland? :

" Social housing problem families or tenants who do not show an improvement or refuse to go to the special units face eviction and homelessness.

" Holland's capital already has a special hit squad of municipal officials to identify the worst offenders for a compulsory six month course in how to behave.'
etc...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-villages.html

Maybe not. Just a thought...

I don't understand the last paragraphs of the cite:

"The Dutch Parool newspaper observed that the policy was not a new one. In the 19th century, troublemakers were moved to special villages in Drenthe and Overijssel outside Amsterdam. The villages were rarely successful, becoming sink estates for the lawless.

"We have learned from the past," said the mayor's spokesman. "A neighbourhood can deal with one problem family but if there are more the situation escalates."

Are they saying this policy is not new because it is similar to the earlier scenario; a scenario that was "rarely successful". Yet they still want to implement. What have they "learned from the past" ?