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

Before we answer this question, we first have to inquire into the poorer people’s conditions for example where they live and whether there are basic sanitation, formal jobs, policing, etc. By and large, creating more socially mixed residential areas seems to be a good intention. However, it will probably have problems on different levels such as a bigger social inequality or perhaps the growth of theft.

In my view, we were not supposed to think about this by now. Our society has many differences that it does not know how to respect and if we did a research, we would see not just how poorer people fit in this society but also the lack of investments in education, cultural activities, health, etc. this is perceptible because of the richer people who have more infrastructure generally. Indeed, we often do not feel the necessity to make this different and we can see it frequently in our streets where there are homeless people who are careless when we have a child who has a better education than the other, etc. Even so, creating this type of residential would make us a more mature society and without socioespacial segregation which is more one step to less inequality.

Admittedly, some people do not think like this because they believe that our society cannot be mixed this way. Perhaps, they are so addicted to a way of life that changing can be difficult or maybe the ideas about the new residential areas are so unlikely to them that they cannot see one day it becomes possible.

Although, respect is required and we have to know how to deal with people’s opinion. Thus, it is not mixing a society that is already mixed; the government and the society, in general, have to eliminate the differences by investing in these divergent areas and creating those type of residential areas.