Wednesday, August 02, 2006
"If you take care of the rich, the poor get taken care of" - An
interview with Hafeez Contractor

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So is the source of the problem the laws and lawmakers themselves?

See, we have impractical laws. And the trouble with the urban scenario
is that by the time you realise the laws are impractical, five to six
years would have passed. By the time you think about making a new law,
the whole real estate scene is so criminalised that people think that,
'If I make this change people will think I've taken the money.' So they
let the law keep running, until it gets out of hand. A lot of laws are
there for the appeasement of the poor. You can't do cities like that.
Nobody has ever created poor man's housing, let us be very clear. All
large low-cost housing is created when you have a larger new area for
the rich.
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http://greenchannel.blogspot.com/2006/08/if-you-take-care-of-rich-poor-get.html