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Housing policies still pin poor in Baltimore, but some escape to suburbs
Baltimore Sun ^ | 12/15/15

Posted on 12/18/2015 6:28:15 PM PST by Altura Ct.

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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Interesting essay here by a Baltimore blogger.

http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=3467


21 posted on 12/18/2015 6:59:50 PM PST by BronzePencil (Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die!)
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To: Altura Ct.
FREE HOUSES?

Who knew?

To purchase our first home we had to save up to make a minimum 20% down payment.

To earn the down payment we both worked full time jobs plus I worked two part time jobs.

By the time we had the down payment saved up and were able to buy the democrats had driven interest rates sky high and we were lucky to get a mortgage loan at only 91/2%.

As we worked to pay off our usurious mortgage off we never dreamed that one day the government would be giving people free houses just because they have black skin.


22 posted on 12/18/2015 7:01:43 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: cripplecreek

Same here. Country folks are so much better off in so many ways. The independence we have equates to freedom. If the SHTF it also equates to survival.


23 posted on 12/18/2015 7:01:58 PM PST by redfreedom (Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: faithhopecharity
("gay gentrification" mostly)
Well, one thing that needs to be said is that homos have a good eye for real estate, and any straight that emulates them should make a pile of money.

because a ton of white kids are moving into the big cities right now
While that comment does not apply to Chicago (because the white kids never moved out), and I cannot speak for New York or Los Angeles, it is true for Detroit. Lots of metrosexuals heading in. It doesn't bother me, and I still want to move to Detroit myself (because of the urban frontier-thing, and I like to think of myself as a frontiersman). The only thing that will change is that there will be a grocery store when I get there.

24 posted on 12/18/2015 7:03:47 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Iron Munro

“As we worked to pay off our usurious mortgage off we never dreamed that one day the government would be giving people free houses just because they have black skin.”


SUCKER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(You have lots of company.)

.


25 posted on 12/18/2015 7:03:57 PM PST by Mears
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To: 1rudeboy

Just be ready in your self- defense department.


26 posted on 12/18/2015 7:09:41 PM PST by faithhopecharity (Diff tween D's and R's is that the D's allow the poor to be corrupt, too. (O. Levant))
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To: faithhopecharity

Dude. This is Detroit. Even the Dems here are armed to the teeth. And I hope to have a few attack goats, if they change the ordinance.


27 posted on 12/18/2015 7:11:33 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Altura Ct.
...designed to combat the intense inner-city segregation and poverty forged by decades of discrimination.

Are they sure it wasn't forged by decades of sunspots? I'm pretty sure it was sunspots.

28 posted on 12/18/2015 7:20:35 PM PST by TChad
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To: Altura Ct.

this crap is a big win in the ryan dirtbag budget. The affirmatively affirmative housing crap coming to everybody’s neighborhood. Millions of new scumbags arriving and moving to section 8 housing in suburbs. Send the first 50 thousand to ryans ‘hood.


29 posted on 12/18/2015 7:21:50 PM PST by biggredd1
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To: BronzePencil

I am of a darker skin shade and I saw some truth in what he said, none of my family acts like thugs and are home and property owners for they worked hard for it, hence the reason why they are at where they are.


30 posted on 12/18/2015 7:25:06 PM PST by the_individual2014
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To: redfreedom

Roll taxes and regulations back a century and I’ll be doing a lot better.

In those days rural people could still live pretty good without ever holding a regular job.

Looking into my town’s history and I see my neighbor’s great grandfather all through the early days. He managed the ice harvest during the winter, built the stone arches of the bridge. He managed and house and migrant farm hands who came through for all the local farms, did all kinds of odd jobs around town, hunted, trapped and farmed etc.


31 posted on 12/18/2015 7:26:41 PM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: 1rudeboy

LOL Detroit is probably the most heavily armed city in the country.

Some 30,000 concealed carry permits backed up by a much larger but unknown number of open carriers and long guns that don’t require registration.


32 posted on 12/18/2015 7:33:26 PM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: 1rudeboy
Speaking of attack goats, I found a miniature horse in the Delray neighborhood on google street view.


33 posted on 12/18/2015 7:36:00 PM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: cripplecreek

That’s where I hope to be heading! Sadly, the property values have risen. I’m about two years late.


34 posted on 12/18/2015 7:38:16 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

A lot of that neighborhood will be gone in a few years when the new bridge and related infrastructure goes in. Its why the property values have risen.

Still it will be a better neighborhood.


35 posted on 12/18/2015 7:43:59 PM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: cripplecreek

Have you seen the Ambassador Bridge at night? Man, if I find a place with that view, I’ll be in heaven. And, I might have goats.


36 posted on 12/18/2015 7:45:58 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

detroit dems will undoubtably try to confiscate your attack goats. You may wish to settle on Ann Arbor, ypsilanti, or hillsdale instead


37 posted on 12/18/2015 7:47:22 PM PST by faithhopecharity (Diff tween D's and R's is that the D's allow the poor to be corrupt, too. (O. Levant))
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To: faithhopecharity

As of now, Ann Arbor allows me chickens. Ypsi, nothing (but pit bulls, I suppose). Hillsdale? Not moving to that side of the State.


38 posted on 12/18/2015 7:50:43 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Altura Ct.

” It’s a justice issue to give families a choice.”

That’s odd, when I bought my house 25 years ago, I thought I had to live within my means. Had I been a protected Obama species, I guess I could have just chosen the fanciest place in town.


39 posted on 12/18/2015 7:55:32 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: faithhopecharity

And yet the social justice warriors are saying they need safe spaces when meeting to discuss issues because the very presence of whites is intimidating. And then they’re demanding to move into majority white areas in the name of fairness.
You want your own ghettos or you want integration - pick one.


40 posted on 12/18/2015 7:56:06 PM PST by tbw2
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