Posted on 06/05/2017 9:55:21 AM PDT by C19fan
A dilapidated block of homes in Baltimore has been demolished as part of a $94million project to tear down a chunk of the 17,000 abandoned homes in the neighborhood. More than 800 crumbling homes have already been razed and this section of Herbert Street in West Baltimore is the latest to be reduced to rubble. The homes - many of which are riddled with asbestos and lead paint - have come to symbolize the deep social divide in Baltimore. Roofs have caved in on the abandoned rowhomes, boards are fastened to the doors and window frames and the streets are littered with garbage.
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Detroit II
“...The end results of when Leftist blacks and cucks run a city....”
Which is why we need to keep them as far as possible from the levers of govt power. They’re just not capable of proper management.
But, hey, Black Lives Matter, right? I mean they won a Peace Prize and all....lmao.
The only reason why places like SF, Portland, and Seattle are still decent cities is they are run by whites.
Looks like Detroit.
Yep...... the abandoned houses were where the bodies were hidden behind city boarded up windows and doors.
We shouldn’t be happy about this. Where are these people going to live when all the houses and neighborhoods they destroyed are torn down? It’s a constant battle in nearby areas to stop construction schemes that get approved as “assisted living” or whatever, then in not long become a place for displaced inner city people to move to.
Fly a Buff over them and drop napalm.
One small step
We’ve elected a builder and its trickling down
I’m curious as to the unwritten real story here.
Someone owned that property. That someone would be liable for the cost of clean up (expensive, thanks to EPA).
Now it’s on the taxpayer dime.
But, but the Homeless! The Homeless! They have reappeared like magic on Jan 20 2017!
That’s a shame. Many of these homes could have been rehabilitated and provide much needed work and homes to people. Nice brick facades, old fashioned streetscaping, could have been a lovely place.
I wonder why gentrification did not take place?
If they had given these homes and land away free and property tax free for 10 years to people who committed to renovating them they could have had a much better (and cheaper) result.
Very short sighted. Now some awful atrocity will be built there.
2008 happened.
Another big loss in LBJ’s war on poverty!
Sad. Iconic Baltimore row houses. Luckily, there are still a lot of them. This neighborhood looks like most of Camden NJ.
Although I live near Baltimore now, I haven’t spent much time in row homes.
I lived near Detroit for nearly 50 years and for a while worked in welfare homes.
That was 30 years ago. The homes had been neglected for decades but could have probably been re-habilitated. 30 years later, any real hope of saving these homes is futile.
It can be done. The builder can shore up the façade and completely rebuild the interior, removing even the floor joists and wall studs. It’s incredibly time consuming and expensive.
Better off with complete demo and possible future re-build.
It’s the same with these cheaper row homes.
It’s racist when the whites left. It’s racist that the houses fell to garbage, it’s racist that the houses are being torn down. It’s racist when someone will buy the property. It’s racist when a white moves builds a house and moves in. It’s racist when the neighborhood starts to flourish. It’s racist no blacks live there so HUD forces section 8 housing. It’s racist when the whites start leaving. It’s racist that the houses fall to garbage. It’s racist.............
I know nothing about Baltimore. But I believe people like Spike Lee strongly opposed gentrification in places in Brooklyn. They saw gentrification as: a bunch of white people moving in, fixing the place up, raising the property values, and -- you know -- just destroying the neighborhood and chasing black folks out.
Can't be having that.
Part of the problem is Md lead abatement laws that made it extremely expensive to strip out the lead paint and get an abatement certificate for a rental unit. The houses end up with zero economic value because of this far sighted policy.
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