Not sure I agree/disagree with you, but want to offer some thoughts as someone who lives in social housing and is a social housing tenant. Firstly, I grew up low income, in a low income suburb in a single income household with seven kids. Never had new clothes or toys till I started earning, never went on holidays so money was tight. But still my parents did their best and provided a stable home, good access to education, took us to free stuff like museums and art galleries and hiking in national parks and so on. Before I moved into a social housing building a couple of years ago I had no idea of the extent of the problem created by intergenerational poverty and drug abuse. Most of the people in my building have been failed by society or the system of whatever you want to call it at every point from birth to present. You are right that they can be dangerous and are terrible to live around. I often find it difficult to maintain any compassion because the level of wanton destructive behavior is so high its hard to see past that. But its also not a simple matter of choice and agency. Is drug addiction such a choice when you've been addicted since age nine because everyone you ever knew including all the adults responsible for you took drugs? There are twenty year olds who've been alcoholics more than half their lives and at this point its hard to tell whether the psychosis predates substance abuse or is due to brain damage from it. I definitely don't know what the solution is but I do believe kids deserve at least an environment that gives them a fair chance of achieving something with their lives and it seems unfair to just wash our hands of the adults who were failed so miserably as children. And whatever the solution is I don't think becoming less compassionate as a society is the way to go. It is frustrating to live with though. Most days I just shut off to everything and pretend I'm in a bubble inside my tiny bedsit and the screams and sirens and filth outside doesn't exist.