That's obviously a toxic way of thinking and it permeates the hood. Very challenging to successfully raise a child in a community where that thinking pervades or where drug addiction is the norm and not an oddity.
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At 1:44 in this video the cousin of the shot and killed burglar says "You have to look at it from every child's point of view that was raised in the HOOD. How he gonna get his money to have clothes for school..." https://www.facebook.com/Modmanofficial/videos/393872387745627/ …
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There seems to be a correlation between the size of a housing project and its crime per capita, i.e. the south side of Chicago has more crime per capita than NYC's housing projects because NYC's are scattered and often in pockets of otherwise successful socioeconomic areas.
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It's a logistical nightmare and loses the perceived efficiency of scale from a large housing project, but I think we could serve the people in these communities better if they lived in gov't housing scattered across the city instead of just in one place.
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In this way, going to school without money for food or stealing so that you can have nice clothes and respected by your peers goes from the norm, to an oddity. It's helpful for people to see that the ways of the hood are not the only way.
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Oh yeah, I should mention that this is an idea copied from Singapore. Lee Kuan Yew mandated that housing projects not be organized by clannishness. He forced every housing project to have an ethnic quota so underachieving malays would mix with high achieving Chinese.
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