Posted on 05/24/2014 2:54:04 PM PDT by ClaytonP
Google Street view from top to bottom: 2009, 2011, 2013
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One house. Looks like there was a fire after the first photo. Prior to that it didn’t look too bad.
Winter here also speeds decay.
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Same everywhere I think. As an alternative to prison for some offenders, I’d like to see them trained to operate heavy equipment and put to work doing demolition work. If they screw up, they get to break rocks in the hot sun instead.
So one house has a fire. So what?
Notice the “No Cut” painted on the front. The city doesn’t want the neighbors to cut the grass. I’m guessing they’re afraid of losing federal blight reduction funding if the grass is mowed.
Lots of other decent houses in the neighborhood. If I were mayor I would encourage the neighbors to cut at least the front lawns of those houses. I would even encourage the neighbors to tear those places down if they wish with a two way waiver of responsibility. The city wouldn’t be liable if someone is hurt tearing it down and the person tearing it down isn’t responsible for back taxes. I would offer the vacant lots to retirees as part of their settlement as long as they pay taxes going forward and keep them up.
I don’t see any difference between 2011 and 2013.
The house next to it is extremely well cared for. I can’t imagine that they like having that thing next door.
The neighbors should set them on fire right after they call the fire department. And the fire department policy should be to use the burning houses as training.
In the little southern town of my youth every so often the volunteer fire department would go over to the black part of town and burn down a vacant house. I assume they had the owner’s permission or maybe the county had taken them for back taxes. Anyway, they’d let it burn for a while. Then knock it down and get it back under control then let it start roaring again. They’d do this until there was nothing left. It was fun to watch.
The middle house looks like it’s been painted.
Yup. 1159 Harrison street Gary Indiana was the first street view I randomly zoomed in on. It is clearly abandoned along with the next two houses. 50 feet away on the other side of the street are nice little bungalows with well kept lawns.
Its an urban thing resulting from urban governance.
Actually in Detroit neighbors do burn down a lot of the abandoned houses that become crack houses.
You obviously didn't follow the link. There are many examples and I'm not going to post all of them here.
Hardly one in ten freepers bother to read any source.
Doesn't "Holder's Peoples" have a Halloween tradition.
This looks like North Minneapolis, Minnesota
5 year span. Kinda like the obama administration...
Never let democrats run anything as these photos show the end result.
The corrupt news media covers up and pretends nothing like this is going on thru out the country where democrats are in charge.
I looked at street views in several cities and towns and found a lot of the same everywhere. Even in the largest small city near me (Jackson Mi) there are a lot of boarded up houses. Lawns look mowed but there are a lot of empty houses.
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