[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

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Last houses standing: The beautiful row houses once part of sprawling tenements that illustrate Baltimore's urban decay

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maryland “Freak State” PING!

[TurboZamboni]

Time and democrat voting have resulted in the decay and demolition of many such blocks.

there. fixed it.

[US Navy Vet]

Remember Baltimore is “Nasty” Nancy Pelosi’s “Hometown”.

[arthurus]

When I was very small in the 50s I rode in the back seat of my parents’ car through Baltimore several times and I remember street after street of those row houses. It is my entire remembered impression of the city. It was declining neighborhoods even then.

[edpc]

There were so many times when I had to travel on Fayette or Baltimore St to service equipment at Bon Secours Hospital. It was disgraceful to see the condition of the once beautiful neighborhoods. That was over 10 years ago. I can only imagine how much worse it has become.

[rdcbn]

One more example of a once great city run into the sh*thole by the corruption and failed social policies of the Democrat party

[Dilbert San Diego]

Those pictures remind me of the pictures we see of Detroit sometimes posted here.

Well, neglect, youth gang violence, decent people having moved out decades ago, druggies taking over abandoned properties, liberal policies encouraging all of these things happening, and the result is places which resemble Berlin after World War II.

[rktman]

Funny place for a mercedes to be parked. I suppose it’s not where you live but what you drive that counts in some parts of town.

[dfwgator]

Urban decay - It isn’t just for Detroit, anymore.

[TheRhinelander]

Baltimore is a festering crap hole. If someone tries to tell you the Inner Harbor is cool, tell them to stuff it. Will never ever go back.

[PGR88]

Don’t worry - the Federal Government will eventually expand so large with printed Federal Reserve money, the DC property market will in time grow to include Baltimore as well. Those row houses will be snapped up by young government apparatchiks and consultants working on our latest nationalization scheme for $8,000,000

[rusty schucklefurd]

As per usual, (according to one of the comments) the blame for the decline of Baltimore? GW Bush! I wonder if we will ever get him away from the control panel of every problem in this country.

[ArcadeQuarters]

Nice work, Democrats. You destroy and consume what others create.

[Shimmer1]

Baltimore is a cesspool

[jboot]

I'm a native Marylander and I see Baltimore every day. I get to see this crap up close. Other than racial politics and the entitlement mentality, the single biggest obstacle to fixing Baltimore is the attitude of the locals. There is not merely a denial of the problems-there is a perverse pride in them. Baltimore is "real city" to them. Urban blight is "honest" and efforts to clean up or redevelop are seen though a dark lens of black racialism or lefty hipster disdain. "Gentrification" and "redevelopment" are attempts by "the man" to destroy the "character" of the city. So when JHU buys up and demolishes a block of abandoned tenements and replaces them with a campus building or a parking garage it enrages rather than encourages the locals. It is crazy. IMHO it will keep on going this way until the city goes bankrupt.

[joshua c]

Wasn’t Martin O’Malley the mayor of Baltimore before he became Governor?

Is this his legacy?

[deadrock]

Set building was obviously not required for the HBO show The Wire.

[ontap]

Damn if I can see anything beautiful about being jammed up against your neighbor!!!

[blueunicorn6]

Liberals/Democrats like to live in nice places, too. They just don’t want to make the effort to clean them up. I went to California when I was a kid. We went to a beach in Southern California. I went to use a public restroom. Somebody had crapped in the middle of the floor. This was an analogy of liberal California. Beautiful weather. Beautiful beach. Taxpayers paid a lot to build a nice public facility. Somebody ignores all that and craps in the middle of the floor, ruining it for everyone.

[Travis McGee]

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