What are the core issues involved in the `urban conflict` between constituents of affordable housing and those favoring urban gentrification. Who are the players? What are the priorities? What are the best public policy options to effectively resolve the

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In South Florida , people belonging to low-income group have been suffering from a shortage of affordable housing schemes for a long period of time . The dwindling housing stock is compelling the poor to take some degree of risk while attaining some decent and affordable housing unit . Black community is the worst hit by this crisis , as gentrification forcing them to leave their neighborhood to accommodate the wealthy and the privileged p

The crisis is worsening day after day but the officals of the local governments do not give much heed to the problem , and instead of increasing the number of affordable units they only contribute to the crisis . Far from being an ally in the fight for decent human housing the government , in the pockets of wealthy developers looking to become even wealthier , made the crisis worse (Anthony , 282

To address this gruesome issue , the local commnity organizations tried in vain to cause a meaningfully impact on public policy through engagement . The surface of issues the poor and under-priviliged face up to are gentrification , however , as the system and structural questions imply , the fundamental issues are really land and power . We must fundamentally change the power relationship between people and land in to avoid being segregated into and gentrified out of our land , at the whim of those who benefit from our misery and the officials who do their bidding (Whoriskey , A1

The effected people did everything under the sun to engage decision makers with a combination of talk and pressure , relying on logic statistics and appeals of conscious , urging a public policy which benefits the common good . Elected officials dissed them , the media ignored them and the people suffered . theless , it cannot be said that the community did not work within the system to seek meaningful change . They tried that route , in good faith and over time . The system failed them , and , therefore , they can not rely on it to solve their most fundamental problems (Connerly and Smith , 63

As gentrification and the housing crisis have re-emerged in public discourse , spurred by the exposure of scandal inside Miami-Dade County government , it is clear that three distinct issue areas exist Corruption : Government officials and developers engage each other in immoral , unethical and illegal ways . Corruption prevents the public from getting the most for their tax money and officials from making decisions with the best interest of the people at heart . Corruption is a severe and pervasive problem in South Florida government and business life However , it is important to recognize that corruption did not cause the shortage of affordable housing it only exacerbated an existing crisis (Carlson and Mathur , 20

Economic and Social System : Corruption and public policy aside , the real question is this : does the economic and social system directly benefit from maintaining a permanent underclass ? If so , is the system itself capable of providing that class with housing and social services ? The...