Posted on 12/18/2015 6:28:15 PM PST by Altura Ct.
Danielle Hill has a secret, one she shares with dozens of other residents of Baltimore public housing. It goes like this: They don't live in the city.
Instead, they live in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Harford and Howard counties, in houses purchased by the Housing Authority of Baltimore City. Thousands more have moved to the counties with special rent subsidies in a companion program.
Hill's family is among nearly 10,000 black women and children who have moved into overwhelmingly white, prosperous suburbs through a court-ordered relocation program designed to combat the intense inner-city segregation and poverty forged by decades of discrimination.
That relocation program — one of the nation's largest — has been discreetly rolled out to avoid the political and community opposition that routinely arises to defeat proposals for building subsidized housing in Baltimore's suburbs. Hill's Cockeysville townhouse, for example, was purchased by the city through a nonprofit organization based in the suburbs, with little notice to elected Baltimore County officials or the public.
"We did it very much under the radar," Amy Wilkinson, fair housing director for the Housing Authority of Baltimore City, said of the home purchases. "We met very early on with the county executives. They understood we had to do it. Their request was to make sure [the homes] are really scattered and make sure we do it quietly."
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
"We did it very much under the radar," Amy Wilkinson, fair housing director for the Housing Authority of Baltimore City
It's such a great idea they do by stealth. We're not that stupid, are we?
“Hill’s family is among nearly 10,000 black women and children who have moved into overwhelmingly white, prosperous suburbs through a court-ordered relocation program designed to combat the intense inner-city segregation and poverty forged by decades of discrimination. “
Coming soon to a suburb near you.
In the next census EVERYONE should claim that they are black so all suburbs seem diverse.
Natural integration is fine,forced integration will NEVER work.
.
.
Moving the ghetto to the suburbs. “Immigration without assumption is invasion.” as someone smarter than me said. This holds true not only of the immigrants but of the ghetto dwellers.
I think you mean assimilation.
no, its not housing policies that keep people there
its people that won’t go to work (or can’t find work in this Obama Great Depression) or people who won’t start businesses
people who are, for whatever reasons, sitting on their asses watching Oprah reruns, fake man fights, and cheapo vacuum cleaner infomercials all day
are not going to be able to pay a mortgage
that’s why they are where they are at, its not anybody’s housing policy
> segregation and poverty forged by decades of discrimination
Right.
Moving the problem to the suburbs will just kill the suburbs. It is not the location.
I’m poor and I don’t live in the city thank God.
Same here, CC. I’m out in the boondocks and LOVE IT!
Who the hell would start a business in this Obama business climate. The massive increase in rules and regulations coupled with all the graft needed to pay off most local polls and the reward rarely outweighs the extreme risk.
Is it even legal or constitutional (per MD constitution) for a local government agency to purchase property outside of that government’s geographical jurisdiction?
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
damned enemies in our government, treating us like stupid sheeple
(well, maybe they have a point?...alas...)
answer: almost nobody is starting businesses these days, given the antagonism, and all the barriers and penalties and taxes imposed by the Obama regime
i understand
yes.
Yes thank you for the correction.
Small town for me (Less than 100 people) surrounded by boondocks.
I bought and paid off my house as fast as I could and I manage my money wisely.
It says in the article they even give them instruction on how to clean a refrigerator before moving them.
That right there should tell you something about the City of Baltimore’s poor.
.
the Ahole political hacks should leave the black welfare folks where they are in the big cities
if they want to play the racist integration game
because a ton of white kids are moving into the big cities right now
(”gay gentrification” mostly)
so...soon there will be a ‘fully diversified admixture of racist groupings’ in the big cities...
but if the racist sheep-master political Aholes move the back folk away, out of the big cities, then they will just enable new racist-separated ghettos.....with the white folk in the big cities and the black people relocated to ugly housing projects out in what used to be the suburbs
no logic in that, and wasteful too
And therein is a huge chunk of the problem. Three kids and never been married. Seventy-two percent of all black babies are born out of wedlock. Without a father to help raise and support the kids, what chance do they have? Al and Jesse want to blame whites for all their problems, when in fact it begins in their own homes. Since the War on Poverty began under Johnson, we have poured trillions of taxpayer dollars into that rat hole and the problem has just gotten worse. If they truly want to fight racism, start by cleaning up your own house as a first step.
“Their request was to make sure [the homes] are really scattered and make sure we do it quietly.”
WOW!!! A gubermint official just admitted to destroying a black city. Not only that but they tacitly agreed that blacks should not be allowed to concentrate their numbers. Given that blacnuss is a cultural identity and a way of life the goober mint seems to be destroying by dispersal.
I am curious if these residents were relocated in such a way as to enhance democratic electoral prospects.
Seriously????? Where to begin....where to begin?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.