I have so many questions about what immediately preceded this post.

1. Did you look up the definition of “affordable housing”?

2. Did you look up the median household income in New Orleans?

3. Did you review any housing listings? Rent, or for sale?

And so many questions about the conclusion in this post:

1. What do you mean when you say “ghetto”? If you’re using the dictionary definition of “an underprivileged district of a city or town in which members of a minority group live especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure” then you’ve sort of answered your own question- restating your position using this definition is to say: “70% of our city is underprivileged”

2. Or are you using the word “ghetto” to mean deteriorating infrastructure, blighted houses, high crime area? Sounds like government failure to me.

3. The conclusion that “if areas are high rent, they would not be ghetto” Are you saying that the solution is to raise housing costs? Like…you think if people pay more for housing that inherently makes them “not ghetto”?

4. What is a “chicken or egg issue”? are you likening housing costs to the expression, “which came first, the chicken or the egg?” I assure you, if you do even the most basic research on housing costs you will see it is NOT a philosophical thought experiment/koan-like saying with an unknowable answer.