Should we create more socially mixed residential areas, where rich people live next to poorer people, instead of in separate communities?

In order to answer this question, it is essential to determine whether we are talking about an idealistic or a realistic world. The ideal society is the one where there is no social inequality, so the obvious answer to that question would be to first try to increase the life quality of the poorer ones, so that it wouldn't be necessary to decide how those communities should be divided within the residential area.

    However, we live in a capitalist world, where social inequality is just an unfortunate effect in order to bourgeois get rich, so socially mixed residential areas are, in fact, real impasses we have to face. In my opinion, our society is already too segregated so all neighborhoods should accommodate people from all social ladders. With initiatives like that we could promote some kind of union between different people that don't usually frequent the same places. This could also, as a long term consequence, help to decrease intolerance, such as racism and xenophobia.

Admittedly, those socially mixed residentials areas could eventually generate discomfort and insecurity for the richer people that associate violence with the poorer. However, it will be proved to be wrong when people start to respect each other and understand the difficulties that their neighbors are going through. It will create a larger feeling of empathy that should drive those to offer help and support. Those actions are the ones that are going to terminate this endless cycle of violence and poverty within our society.

Although we have to respect people`s anguish about this idea of gathering communities, and the fact that it will be a very slow change, we have to consider that it may well help decrease violence and provide a larger sense of union between different members of our society.