in need of a little Robin Hood

ahhh, the joys of neo-liberalism:

"One argument frequently made for public housing is based on an alleged neighbourhood effect: slum districts in particular, and other low quality housing to a lesser degree, are said to impose higher costs on the community in the form of fire and police protection. This literal neighbourhood effect may well exist. But insofar as it does, it alone argues, not for public housing, but for higher taces on the kind of housing that adds to social costs since this would tend to equalize private and social cost."
-Milton Freidman, in "Capitalism and Freedom", p 178